Happy Monday: ‣ Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum [pictured] does a post-Coachella show at the Orpheum Theatre. ‣ Big night at It’s a School Night – LP brings her big vocals to Bardot, along with Brooklyners (and one of our Coachella highlights) We Are Augustines and Sweet Hearts, the sweet new collaboration between Priscilla Ahn […]
Sunday’s select music menu: ‣ Coachella weekend two wraps up in Indio as Dre. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac’s hologram, At the Drive-In, Florence + the Machine, Justice and more headline in the desert. ‣ Meanwhile at Dillon’s Roadhouse, Akron/Family [that’s their video for “Cast a Net”], Here We Go Magic, the Entrance Band, Mini Mansions […]
If you’ve packed your things for a weekend at Coachella (perhaps returning for round two), you can check out what the desert’s got going on for Record Store Day here. But if you’ve decided to stick around in L.A., make sure to head on down to your favorite local spots to grab some exclusive vinyl […]
‣ Weekend 2 of Coachella kicks off with the Black Keys, Pulp, Gary Clark Jr., Arctic Monkeys, Jimmy Cliff & Tim Armstrong, Girls, Explosions in the Sky, Other Lives and more. ‣ Canadian electro producer Felix Cartal [pictured] headlines the Avalon Hollywood behind his new release on Dim Mak Records, “Different Faces.” ‣ Good local […]
Another massive night of Coachella “sandwich” shows, and some other gems: ‣ Wild Flag, the all-star quartet featuring Carrie Brownstein [pictured] and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) along with Mary Timony (Helium) and Rebecca Cole (the Minders), was one of our Week 1 Coachella highlights. They join two other artists playing the two weekends in the desert, […]
Wednesday’s shows – are we spoiled, or what? ‣ Tonight is about all things Miike Snow. The Swedish/American indie-pop mind-meld of Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt is riding high after the late-March release of their second album, the eclectic “Happy to You,” and their set Saturday night at Coachella was bonkers. They do […]
[Weekend 1 of Coachella is history – we now resume or regularly scheduled programming:] Big night for Coachella bands gigging in between the festival’s two weekends. And a legend stops by too: ‣ Elvis Costello & the Imposters bring their Spectacular Spinning Songbook Tour – fans are invited onstage to spin a huge wheel to help […]
[We’re in the desert for Day 1 of Coachella – and it seems as if the half of L.A. that isn’t here for the festival is hanging out at Moon Block Party / Desert Daze gig in Desert Hot Springs. So pardon this abbreviated list:] Tonight: ‣ Day 1 of Coachella features Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, […]
Our heads are spinning already … and two weeks of this to come: ‣ Madchester favorites James, with a deluxe boxed set “The Gathering Sound” (all 11 of their studio albums on USB stick, 3CDs, a DVD, vinyl and more – whew) on the way, play a pre-Coachella show at the El Rey Theatre. Elizaveta opens. […]
Your Wednesday fare: ‣ Chairlift visits the Troubadour behind its highy praised second album “Something,” with Nite Jewel opening. ‣ Big noise at the sold-out fourth annual Revolver Golden Goods Awards show gathering at Club Nokia, with Marilyn Manson, Korn, Slash, Evanescence, Sixx:A.M. and more. (It’s going to be broadcast live on XBox Live.) ‣ […]
