Arthur Magazine will be throwing the first-ever Arthurball, set for the weekend of February 25-26 in Los Angeles. Its combination of live music, film screenings, and appearances by “poets, thinkers, artists, jokers, yappers and typers” will set the festival apart. Arthur Magazine editor-in-chief Jay Babcock boasts, “You can go to South by Southwest or you can skip to the good stuff.”

The weekend will feature headliners Joanna Newsom and the 5:15ers, another Josh Homme side-project with his longtime collaborator Chris Goss. Also performing is Born Heller, Growing, Entrance, Tarantula A.D., Brightblack Morning Light, Pearls & Brass, Town & Country, and Mike Watt and George Hurley’s Unknown Inspectors.http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001843331