Guns N’ Roses, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica and Tool will co-headline Power Trip, a new three-day festival at Empire Polo Club this October. Pre-registration for ticket sales (starting next Thursday) is now open.
ONLINE FINDS ■ Pop duo the Bird and the Bee — Inara George and Greg Kurstin — have famously covered Hall & Oates and Van Halen, so what’s a little AC/DC between friends? In honor of the 40th anniversary of “Back in Black,” they covered “You Shook Me All Night Long” for Amazon Music. “I just […]
Also: Silversun Pickups, Ratatat, Algiers, Roses, Riothorse Royale, Brigitte, the Vim Dicta, Brendan James and more.
Including: AC/DC, Silversun Pickups, Emmylou Harris, Imagine Dragons, Disclosure, Gary Numan, Swervedriver, Catfish & the Bottlemen, Tove Lo, Johnathan Rice, Best Coast, Duran Duran, BØRNS, Van Halen, Thievery Corporation, the Gaslamp Killer, Dawes and more.
Friday night fun: â–º Weekend 2 of Coachella 2015 kicks off, with AC/DC, Tame Impala, Interpol, Steely Dan [pictured], Alabama Shakes, Alesso, Ride, Flying Lotus and many more. [Set times at the end of this post.] Here are Buzz Bands LA’s mini-reviews of 20 sets from Weekend 1. â–º Veteran Japanese psych-rockers Acid Mothers Temple […]
Heading to Indio for Weekend 2 of Coachella? Buzz Bands LA covered 58 sets during the first weekend of the festival, and below are the links to all of them. We had three writers on the ground trying to cover as much as possible (and, yes, we still missed a lot). Our favorites? We picked […]
Who: AC/DC at the Outdoor Stage In 3 or Fewer Words: Rock or bust! Memorable Because: “I hope you guys like rock ’n’ roll, because that’s all we do!†singer Brian Johnson squealed as legendary hard rock band AC/DC took the Main Stage. He wasn’t lying. AC/DC’s electrifying set felt like a middle-finger to the […]
Just past 8 o’clock on Friday night, after Alabama Shakes had serenaded a splendid desert sunset in Indio, two twenty-something dudes skipped like schoolchildren toward the Outdoor Theatre at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. “Reelin’ in the years, bro!” one cried. He was not being ironic. Bros were was stoked to see Steely […]
â–º Coachella 2015 kicks off, with AC/DC, Tame Impala, Interpol, Steely Dan, Alabama Shakes, Alesso, Ride, Flying Lotus and many more. [Set times at the end of this post.] And, hey, the headliners have a new video for “Rock the Blues Away,” from AC/DC’s new album “Rock Or Bust.” â–º It’s Fleetwood Mac at the […]
L.A. trio Nico Vega should have been spending this week gearing up for a monthlong national tour with London rockers Placebo. But it wasn’t to be. Placebo was forced to cancel its U.S. tour in August after singer Brian Molko collapsed onstage in Japan from the effects of a virus. So Nico Vega, coming off […]
