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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival promoters Goldenvoice/AEG Live have said repeatedly that they could have sold out a third weekend. In fact, “we probably could have added two more Coachella weekends,” Randy Phillips, president of AEG Live, earlier told The Times. Could a full month of Coachellas be in the cards for 2013? Unlikely, but Goldenvoice on Monday is expected to provide some clarity on its 2013 plans.  The promoter on Friday posted one of its now-customarily cryptic pre-announcement announcements. There was little information released, and Friday’s Twitter/Facebook bulletin essentially amounts to a press release hyping a press release, but the local promotor promised news at 10 a.m. Monday. It’s expected that Goldenvoice will announce the dates for the 2013 event, which has already been booked, confirmed and green-lighted with the desert city of Indio. [...]

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We’ve just posted the second episode of “Hero Complex: The Show” on the Nerdist Channel on YouTube and it’s an exciting one for us:  Leonard Nimoy is the guest.

We visited the sci-fi icon’s Bel Air home a few weeks ago to talk about “Star Trek,” his evolution as a filmmaker and photographer and his philosophies on family and career. We also talked about a very special photograph — the one that shows him meeting Jimi Hendrix not long before rock’s greatest guitar hero died in 1970 at age 27.

“Hero Complex: The Show” premiered two weeks ago with our visit to the offices of Ridley Scott and picks up again May 23 with the conclusion of our Nimoy visit. (And just to make sure you check back, chew on this thought: In Part 2, he gives us a William Shatner impression.) But here’s that first installment: [...]

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Soundgarden will “Rise” again with their new studio album this October.

“It’s done,” frontman Chris Cornell told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview published today. “It’ll be out in probably October…I would say September but I’m just guessing October.”

While the new LP, the band’s first since 1996’s platinum-selling “Down on the Upside,” will not include “Live to Rise” – the tune they contributed to this weekend’s record-setting “The Avengers” – Cornell went on to say that, while it’s not totally indicative of the sound on the new album, the tune would nevertheless “work just fine on it.” [...]

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Luscious Jackson emerged in 1991 as the coolest girls strutting the East Village. Playing a mélange of hip-hop rhythms, brooding bass, and mysterious harmonies, the group — founding members Jill Cunniff, Gabby Glaser, and Kate Schellenbach — hit hard among the then-burgeoning alt-punk-hip-hop scene in New York, propped up by their lifelong friends the Beastie Boys. By the time 1997 rolled around, Luscious Jackson had hit the Billboard charts (“Naked Eye”), and solidified themselves as one of the era’s most unique bands. But when their final album, Electric Honey, failed to pop off — and Cunniff wanted to have children — they went on hiatus in 2000.

But after 12 years, the trio is working on a new album, beginning with the breakbeat-laden pop song “Are You Ready?” Now liberated by the Internet, the group is funding their new work entirely through their fans via Pledge Drive, and gearing up for a new tour schedule (working around their families, of course). “Our fans are basically supporting our new record,” says Glaser. “It’s amazing.” [...]

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(AllHipHop News) A record store owner in Royal Oaks, Michigan, has recently unearthed what he believes are over 7,000 records from the late and great Hip-Hop producer J Dilla‘s personal collection.

The Detroit News is reporting that Jeff Bubeck, owner of the Royal Oaks record store UHF, discovered “crates full of records, numbering in the thousands. After digging through their contents, Bubeck learned he’d stumbled upon something special, the personal record collection of late Detroit hip-hop producer J Dilla.”

Bubeck acquired over 7,000 records from “an abandoned storage unit in Clinton Township last month that may have belonged to Dilla.” [...]

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“Best of… most of… satiate the need…” sang Morrissey in 1987’s ‘Paint A Vulgar Picture’, a savage sweep at the regurgitating lactation of the record industry, which was in full swing even 24 years ago. That alone says as much as needs to be said on the subject, but only last week a tired story was wheeled out once more as a lazy journalist leapt on a tenuous,  throwaway comment from guitarist Johnny Marr, and suddenly The Smiths reunion was back on again. [...]

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Is Axl Rose having second thoughts about not showing up for Guns N’ Roses’ induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 14? [...]

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A new batch of performers will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week. In the days leading up to the induction ceremonies, Morning Edition is visiting the cities that gave birth to the inductees. Today: the story of a battle for the future of rock ‘n’ roll that took place on the streets of L.A. in the early 1980s.

On one side was the raw, stripped-down sound of punk-rock bands such as Black Flag, Fear and X, who spun fast, hard stories for the city’s street kids. As a teenager, Michael Balzary was a big fan.

“X was probably the one I loved the most,” Balzary says. “They really affected me powerfully. I was in love with them — I saw them every chance I got.”

The kid who would one day be known as Flea and play bass for the Red Hot Chili Peppers would never have listened to such sounds just a few years earlier. He had been schooled in the more sophisticated structures of jazz and classical music. But one day, he had a revelation. [...]

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