Your big Saturday: ‣ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival continues Weekend 2 at the Empire Polo Club. Tonight’s headliners include Nas, the Disememberment Plan, Pet Shop Boys, Skrillex, Muse, Pharrell Williams and more. See set times for Weekend 2 here. ‣ If you’re staying local but still want to get into the festival season, […]
Record Store Day is a marketing gimmick, friends, like Valentine’s Day. After all, you shouldn’t wait for just one day per year to tell your local music purveyor that you love him/her/them, right? But it wasn’t that long ago that the death knell was being sounded for all record stores, and now you can’t fling […]
Brokechella, the budget-friendly festival featuring a mix of rock, electronic, hip-hop and comedy artists from the L.A. underground, goes off Saturday at 590 Santa Fe St. in downtown Los Angeles. The festival, in its fourth year, offers entertainment on four stages beginning at 3 p.m. Tickets are $10 but if you want to be a […]
It’s Friday, finally: ‣ Weekend 2 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival kicks off at the Empire Polo Club, with Outkast, the Knife, the Replacements, the Afghan Whigs, Bryan Ferry, Haim, Grouplove and more. Set times are here. A comprehensive recap of our Weekend 1 coverage is here. ‣ Rufus Wainwright visits the […]
Just before his band began their second set on Wednesday night, Beck looked around the crowd in producer Bob Clearmountain’s Apogee Studio in Santa Monica and remarked, “With the lighting and the stage, I’m having flashbacks to open mic nights. Apogee Studio is like a coveted and elusive treehouse for music nerds, and with a […]
A busy Thursday: ‣ Mogwai stop by the the El Rey Theatre before their set at Coachella Weekend 2. Factory Floor and Majeure also play. ‣ Neko Case and the Dodos do another show at the Orpheum Theatre before Case also heads back to the desert. ‣ The Toy Dolls are at the Fonda Theatre […]
Coachella artists dominate the L.A. landscape tonight. Like this: ‣ MGMT performs at the Orpheum Theatre. ‣ Haim bring their sister act to the Fox Theater in Pomona. ‣ At the El Rey Theatre, it’s Bombay Bicycle Club and Bear Hands, along with Royal Canoe. ‣ The 1975 headline Club Nokia, supported by Sir Sly […]
Couldn’t go to Coachella? Coachella has come to you. There are 10 “Localchella” shows on the schedule tonight: ‣ Broken Bells [pictured] and Au Revoir Simone play the Fonda Theatre. ‣ Bryan Ferry and Dawn Landes visit Club Nokia. ‣ RAC holds forth at the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Temples, Drowners and Bo Ningen rock […]
Incoming: Coachella, Brokechella, Joywave,  Blood Orange, Lawrence Rothman, Banta, Mystic Braves, Mosco Rosco, David Crosby, Kate Nash, Bryan Ferry, Broken Bells, Au Revoir Simone, RAC, Sam Smith, Birds of Tokyo, Factory Floor, the Bloodhounds, Temples, Future Islands, Ellie Goulding, Cage the Elephant, Heaps N Heaps, Bombay Bicycle Club, MGMT, the 1975, Cobalt Cranes, The Jon Spencer […]
Sunday’s things: ‣ Coachella wraps up Weekend 1 with Arcade Fire, Beck, Disclosure, Lana Del Rey and more at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. ‣ Futurisitic funk-pop duo Knower [pictured] headlines the Satellite, appearing along with yOya, Hands and Ed Ghost Trucker. ‣ David Crosby does the first of five sold-out nights at the […]
