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Within the next few years, your smartphone will be able to catalog your belongings, your physical activities, your favorite places and favorite things at these places - even how to get those things. It could even teach you how to fix your car ...

JACKSON BROWNE & DAVID LINDLEY COME TOGETHER FOR INTERNATIONAL TOUR THE DUO RELEASE LOVE IS STRANGE, A 2-CD LIVE SET ON MAY 11 Jackson Browne Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne will take to the road this summer with his band and longtime friend and musical co-conspirator ...

The life story of Apple CEO Steve Jobs is coming to the stage! The Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California is hosting a new play about the tech genius titled “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” The play promises to explore the “epic story of a real-life Willy ...

Photo by Gail Butensky UPDATE: Spiral Stairs has posted an entry on his blog about the Auckland show, featuring photos and the setlist. As you may have heard, the indie rock band Pavement are traveling around the world on a reunion tour this year. And just ...

Photo via Spiral Stairs' blog Superfans rejoice! The Pavement reunion tour is now just a few days away from kicking into gear; the first show goes down March 1 in Auckland, New Zealand. And a couple of members of the band giving ...

Researchers say an afternoon nap prepares the brain to learnMAD dogs and Englishmen, so the song has it, go out in the midday sun. And the business practices of England’s lineal descendant, America, will have you in the office from nine in the morning to five in the evening, if ...

A New Jersey man who says he was beaten during an episode of MTV’s Jersey Shore has lost his bid to stop the release of video footage depicting the brawl. In a Tom’s River courtroom on Monday, Stephen Izzo, 26, of Berkeley, N.J., tried to stop distribution of the DVD ...

PATTY GRIFFIN CONFIRMS TOUR DATES TO SUPPORT DOWNTOWN CHURCH, OUT NOW Patty Griffin EMI/Credential Recordings is excited to confirm Patty Griffin's first tour in support of her new record, Downtown Church, released January 26. The dates are the first leg of several ...

Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi Birgisson is striking out on his own this year. On March 23 April 6, XL will release Go, his first solo album. And in April, Jónsi's solo show will come ...

Mark your calenders! April 17 brings the 2010 edition of Record Store Day, a celebration of independent record stores. In years past, artists have released exclusive items for Record Store Day, and 2010 looks to be no different. Last year, Portland punks the Thermals released a split 7" ...

Phil Lesh's 70th Birthday Celebration Phil Lesh On Friday March, 12, Furthur will celebrate Phil Lesh's 70th birthday with a special concert billed as "Furthur & Friends" at the Bill Graham Civic Center in San Francisco, CA. The show will be a benefit ...

Green Day on Broadway. Kinda has a nice ring to it. The Grammy-winning punk rockers are bringing their rock musical, American Idiot, to the New York stage. A stage adaptation of the group’s critically-acclaimed album of the same name will open at Manhattan’s St. James Theatre April 20, producers Tom Hulce and ...

Stressed mothers spontaneously abort male fetusesIT HAS been known for a while that stressful conditions such as famine result in more girls being born than happens in good times. The shift in the sex-ratio is tiny—around 1%—but in a large population that is still noticeable. A possible evolutionary explanation is ...

PAT METHENY'S ORCHESTRION TO BE RELEASED JANUARY 26, 2010 2010 U.S. TOUR DATES ADDED Pat Metheny Seventeen-time Grammy Award-winner Pat Metheny once again explores new territory with his forthcoming project, Orchestrion. Following the album's January 26, 2010 release on Nonesuch Records (February 9 on vinyl), ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic have sued the Department of Justice and five other government organizations for cloaking their policies for using Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to investigate citizens in criminal and other matters. The groups want to know exactly how and what kinds of ...

Stanford alum Tiger Woods got an earful of hearty heckling from the Berkeley boobirds during a college football game over the weekend. The Masters champ — who played for Stanford’s golf team before going pro as an undergrad — was made honorary captain for the Cardinals during Saturday’s matchup ...

The folks at Thrill Jockey seem to have signed half of the indie bands in Baltimore. The label's roster already includes Double Dagger, Arbouretum, Pontiak, Thank You, Daniel Higgs, Human Bell, and Jason Urick. And now they've snapped up another B-more scene mainstay, ...

Being empathetic is all in the genes, say researchers who have found a genetic variation linked to a person’’s ability to infer the mental state of others. The researchers from Oregon State University and University of California, Berkeley have found a variation in the hormone/neurotransmitter oxytocin’’s receptor that might explain how ...

BLUE TURTLE SEDUCTION TO PLAY BENEFIT FOR SEA TURTLES Popular Jam Band to Play Intimate Benefit Show to Support the 20-Year-Old Sea Turtle Restoration Project Blue Turtle Seduction Blue Turtle Seduction, a popular festival jam band, will play to protect ancient, endangered sea turtles ...

Green Day’s American Idiot Musical seems bound for Broadway. The critically-acclaimed punk rock opera is currently playing an extended world-premiere run at Rep’s Roda Theatre in Berkeley, CA, through Nov. 15, but an adaptation of the show is currently in pre-production for a debut on New York’s Great White Way. “There is ...