Nine Inch Nails’ show tonight at the Music Box @ Fonda is off – Trent Reznor is ill. From NIN’s website: We’re very sorry to announce that Trent is ill, and on his doctor’s orders we will not be able to perform tonight’s show at the Henry Fonda Theater. This is the only information we […]
[Random observations on a Tuesday afternoon …] Ozzy Osbourne, who will be honored Sept. 10 at the House of Blues as the kickoff to the Sunset Strip Music Festival, has been added to the bill to perform the final set on the festival’s outdoor stage on Sunset Boulevard on Saturday, Sept. 12. Korn, Pepper, Kottonmouth […]
Noel Gallagher quit Oasis. DJ AM found dead in New York. World’s Fair Label Group (Lyrics Born, the Dandy Warhols, et al) was shuttered.
For a light lunch, it was pretty heavy. The Dead Weather kicked off the opening of Third Man Records and Novelties West Pop-Up store by playing a 25-minute set Wednesday afternoon to a capacity crowd of about 600 at downtown’s Regent Theatre. It was just a six-song taste off the band’s album “Horehound,” but even […]
The Third Man Records and Novelties West Pop-Up Shop – a store that sells all things Jack White – opens this morning at 448 S. Main St., and the Dead Weather themselves are scheduled to play at noon. Fans were camping out Tuesday evening to get into the free show. Not sure how the space […]
I am not quite old enough to have attended Woodstock – if you want some insights, talk to this guy – but I will look in on “Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary,” the photographic exhibition currently up at the Duncan Miller Gallery. The exhibition features the work of four photographers – Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Henry […]
Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor whose innovations included the development of the solid-body electric guitar and the evolution of recording techniques that helped change the face of music, has died. The man born Lester William Polfuss, who has been called the “father of modern music,” was 94. Here is CNN’s obituary. And a story […]
The supergroup featuring drummer Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), guitarist Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and bassist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) – who are going by Them Crooked Vultures – debuted Sunday night in Chicago. Their post-Lollapalooza club gig was met with glowing reviews from veteran critics Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago […]
[Notes gleaned on a gorgeous Saturday morning in L.A. …] Half of me wishes I were in Grant Park in Chicago for Lollapalooza – the other half thinks that it’s OK that I missed a rain-soaked Day 1. Of local interest: The Henry Clay People (recommended by the likes of MTV) played early and didn’t […]
[Elliott Smith would have been 40 years old today. I think I will spend a meditative hour with “XO” this afternoon …] John Doe and the Sadies bring their collaboration to the Echoplex tonight behind “Country Club,” a new album of country covers (plus three Sadies’ compositions and one by Doe and Exene Cervenka). Jill […]
