News bits: Splash House, Joshua Tree benefit, The Alley Recording Studio fundraiser

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Scene from Splash House (Photo courtesy of Splash House)
Scene from Splash House (Photo courtesy of Splash House)

Things we’re putting on your radar:

■ Tickets go on sale at noon today for the late-summer edition of Splash House, the desert getaway taking place Aug. 9-11 at the Renaissance, Riviera and Saguaro hotels, with an after-hours party at the Palm Springs Air Museum. The lineup features Claude VonStroke, Ekali, Hippie Sabotage, Lane 8, Snakehips, Toro Y Moi (DJ set) and more, with Hot Since 82, Mark Knight, Walker & Royce and others holding forth at the museum. Hotel packages are sold out, but passes are available here for $195 (after-hours party starts at $45).

■ Organizers of the Desert Daze festival and the Fat Tire beer company are teaming up for a two-stage benefit concert benefiting Friends of Joshua Tree, a nonprofit dedicated to cleaning and restoring the Joshua Tree National Park after the recent government shutdown. It goes off July 26 and 27 at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown and features Allah-Las, Mattson 2, the desert all-star band Rancho De La Luna Faction (featuring Dave Catching) and Sugar Candy Mountain, among others. Tickets.

■ There’s a last-ditch fundraising effort under way to save North Hollywood’s The Alley Recording Studio from demolition. The likes of Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have either rehearsed or recorded in the room, originally established in 1965 and expanded in ’73, but current owner John Strand is in danger of losing it to developers who want to build apartments.