Coachella roared into its second weekend Friday – in many ways the same as the first installment, but in some ways different. Overall, crowds were less barrel-you-over intense (ah, civility) on the less-congested but markedly warmer festival grounds. It was as if everybody had shown up for music class, and had done their homework to […]
OK, just to itemize … It’s 4/20. It’s Record Store Day. There’s a festival in the desert. There’s a smaller festival in the desert. And there’s a smaller festival yet downtown. One, two, three … break: ‣ Tinariwen, Warpaint, Chelsea Wolfe and Fool’s Gold highlight the Desert Daze festival near Mecca. Details here. ‣ The […]
If you’re a Weekend 2-goer for Coachella, you can check out what the desert’s got going on for Record Store Day here. But if you’ve decided to stay in the City of Angels this weekend, make sure to head on down to your favorite local spots to grab some exclusively released wax where some of them […]
The first weekend of Coachella is in the books, but we’re still in full-on festival frenzy: Today’s Buzz Bands LA Show on Moheak Radio will feature music from this weekend’s Brokechella in downtown L.A., as well as some of the artists just announced for the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival in downtown L.A. on June […]
Gliss’ new album “Langsom Dans” is like the gift that keeps on giving – the more time you spend with it, with deeper you realize it is. The song “Blur” is a woozy, love-drunk meditation bathed in reverb and longing, and Dutch photographer and director Claudia Crobatia brings it to life with crisp, bright colors […]
Green Day, such crowd-pleasers when they visited Pomona in March, came back around for a good old-fashioned arena show on Thursday and again thrilled a full house. The punk-rock veterans played for 2 1/2 hours (counting encores) on Thursday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, touched on songs from every one of their albums and […]
‣ It’s Weekend 2 of Coachella at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Here are the set times. Here are our recaps of Weekend 1. ‣ The Antlers [pictured] team up with Chairlift for a show at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, part of the week-long Brooklyn Festival. ‣ Bon Jovi brings his big tour […]
By Julia Betley “I don’t want to be a star, but a stone on the shore” James Blake sang as he opened his performance at KCRW’s Berkeley Street Sessions with the title track of his sophomore release “Overgrown.” It didn’t take long at intimate showcase at Bob Clearmountain’s Apogee Studio in Santa Monica for Blake […]
They call it “riotgaze,” the marriage of fuzz-bombing shoegazers and the feral intensity of the riot-grrrl movement. As hybrids go, TULIPS have created a happy one, if their early singles “Hotspur” and “Wait” are any indication. The L.A. trio of Angie Bloom, Taleen Kali and Trav Barnes, who worked on their demos with Medicine’s Brad […]
Let’s start a discussion group. Let’s stop shelving our minds in favor of Day-Glo dreams. Let’s start thinking about what we’re doing. Let’s stop pandering to the lowest common denominator in favor of three minutes of ecstasy. Let’s start embracing a higher purpose. Let’s stop thinking that embracing a high purpose is too much work. […]
