UPDATE 5/25: Two-day passes are now $10 off at Amoeba Hollywood! Weekend passes are now $25 (plus $2 service fee).

The schedule for the 2012 Silver Lake Jubilee has been announced! The festival takes place on Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles and features two days of music, comedy, food trucks, vendors, beer gardens, and more.

You can purchase two-day passes to the Jubilee at Amoeba Hollywood for $37 (this includes a $2 facility fee). 

Saturday, May 26: 12 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.	Sunday, May 27: 12 p.m. to 10:00 p.m
KINKY Autolux La Santa Cecilia Las Cafeteras  Letting Up Despite Great Faults FIDLAR  Matthewdavid Allah-Las  Virtual Boy XBXRX  La Vampires Soft Metals Moses Campbell Catwalk Dunes JJAMZ  Leech Leslie Stevens & The Badgers Robert DeLong Wildcat! Wildcat! Threeway Black Boots Public School Rocks	Aloe Blacc Family of the Year  La Sera The Soft Pack Abe Vigoda  Maya Jupiter LAKE  Princeton  Eastern Conference Champions  TEARIST Incan Abraham  Gangi  Chasing Kings Summer Twins Heatwave  Contact Field Orchestra  Manhattan Murder Mystery Batwings Catwings The Mormons The Dharma Bums Bright Beast Little Guy Silverlake Conservatory of Music

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This year's Silver Lake Jubilee in Los Angeles is on Memorial Day weekend May 26 and 27. The two day neighborhood festival may be its biggest yet with more than 35 bands, 40 comedians and performers, food trucks, craft vendors, and beer/wine for the 21-and-overs.

You can purchase two-day passes to the Jubilee at Amoeba Hollywood for $37 (this includes a $2 facility fee). 

One of the cool things about the festival, aside from all the great bands, is its focus on environmental sustainability. You are very much encouraged to bring your own container and pour water for FREE from the fountains provided on site (that's a lovely change from other festivals that charge ridiculous amounts of money for very small bottles of water). Vendors use compostable food containers, and recycling and composting happens during the festival. Big no-nos inside the Jubilee include single-use plastic bags, Styrofoam, balloons, or other non-recyclable containers. 

When: Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 & 27

• 12 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 26
• 12 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 27

Where: Santa Monica Blvd., with entrances from Sunset Blvd. and Commonwealth

Here is the lineup (so far):

• Abe Vigoda
• Allah-Las
• Aloe Blacc
• Autolux
• Catwalk
• Chasing Kings
• The Dharma Bums
• Eastern Conference Champions
• Family of the Year
• FIDLAR
• Funeral Party
• He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister
• Incan Abraham
• KINKY
• La Santa Cecilia
• Las Cafeteras
• Leslie & The Badgers
• Letting Up Despite Great Faults
• Madi Diaz
• Manhattan Murder Mystery
• Matthewdavid
• The Mo-odds
• Moses Campbell
• Princeton
• The Record Company
• Robert DeLong
• Summer Twins
• TEARIST
• Virtual Boy

Abe Vigoda performing at Amoeba Hollywood in 2008:

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Yesterday Stones Throw Records unveiled the brand new Aloe Blacc video, "You Make Me Smile" - the latest music video from the SoCal neo-soul artist's ever-popular album Good Things. Although the album was originally released back in the Fall of 2010, when the Orange County native celebrated its release with a record release party/in-store performance at Amoeba Hollywood, it continues to sell well due to the popularity of such tracks as "Green Lights,"  "Hey Brother," "Loving You Is Killing Me," his version of the Velvet Underground & Nico's "Femme Fatale," and of course the album's standout soul-stirring track "I Need A Dollar," which many people discovered as the theme music for the HBO television series How To Make It In America. That song, which immediately confirms why Aloe Blacc has been heralded as a modern day Marvin Gaye, sounds like classic '60's/'70's soul but simultaneously acts as the perfect soundtrack to these economically challenging times for many in America.

The Red Bull Music Academy 2012 will be held in New York City, September 30th - November 2nd. Music makers, vocalists, and DJs are invited to apply from February 2nd to April 2nd. The application phase will kick off in style in San Francisco with three days of concerts and parties all around town! Check out these events:

Red Bull Music Academy presents New York City to the SF Bay: JAZZ
The GARY BARTZ Project with featured guests BILAL & ALOE BLACC
January 25th at Yoshi's SF
Get tickets HERE!

Grammy Award winning jazz saxophonist Gary Bartz began making waves on the jazz scene during its prime in New York City and never slowed down. Mr. Bartz was formally trained at Julliard; however, it’s the time alongside jazz greats like Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and McCoy Tyner that has placed him as a legend in the game. R&B icon, Bilal, serves as featured vocalist for the Gary Bartz Project, and for this special night only, soul sensation and 2006 RBMA Participant, Aloe Blacc, will join them on stage.




Red Bull Music Academy presents New York City to the SF Bay: Hip Hop 
"THE STRETCH ARMSTRONG AND BOBBITO SHOW" Revisited
Featuring DJ Sets from DJ Stretch Armstrong (Plant Music) & DJ Bobbito Garcia (Kool Bob Love)
Opening set by DJ Shortkut (Invisibl Skratch Piklz/Beat Junkies)
January 26th at Mighty 
Get tickets HERE!

Above is the brand new video from Aloe Blacc for his song "Green Lights," which is the latest single/video from the talented rapper/singer's album Good Things on Stones Throw Records. It's a popular item at Amoeba Music by the artist who has had a close relationship with the store for many years now, dating back to the time he played an in-store at the Hollywood Amoeba in August of 2006 in support of Shine Through.  He also performed an in-store at Amoeba Hollywood in November of 2010, soon after the release of Good Things - an album that's other singles and videos include his version of the Velvet Underground & Nico's "Femme Fatale." But it was another single, "I Need A Dollar," through which many new fans discovered the artist thanks to its inclusion as the theme song to the HBO series How to Make It in America, The artist has just announced dates for a new U.S. tour in September and October that begins Sunday, September 4th at The Jewish Mother in Virginia Beach, VA.