In addition to waiving the service fee on all shows for any tickets purchased today, LiveNation has deployed LMFAO and Shwayze to personally sell tickets to fans at the Palladium from 6 to 8 PM today. Considering we have spent hours on the phone with several cheerfully robotic Internet service providers today, it’s nice to [...]

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I like to fall asleep to Grizzly Bear—imagining Ed Droste sitting in a rocking chair next to my bed, strumming his guitar and lulling me to sleep with his water-clear voice as a warm breeze blows in through the windows of my Southern plantation home. So when I saw they were playing the Palladium, I was excited to see how they’d make a live show out of bedtime music.

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Photographer Lindsey Best visited the Shins show last Sunday and returned with these shots of James Mercer, Dave Hernandez and a brand-new line-up including members of Modest Mouse and the Fruit Bats. Two pages of her work below and our pre-show interview with James Mercer here.

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The Shins right now are no longer the Shins they used to be—founder James Mercer debuted a new line-up (with members of Modest Mouse and Fruit Bats) last week and will be taking the band from Sub Pop to their own label Aural Apothecary for their next releases. He speaks now about this and Bob Dylan, Heath Ledger and Kermit the Frog, too. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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They started strong with the bombastic “Shiller” off their latest album, LP3, and never let up. The audience was almost as interesting as the show itself—mistaking the Palladium for Coachella Valley, a mysterious dude with an endless supply of water bottles wandered through the crowd squirting liquid into the gaping mouths of people apparently unconcerned with what else might be contained within the free water.

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