Coachella 2012: Abe Vigoda, start your engines
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Who: Abe Vigoda in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Work in progress.
Who: Abe Vigoda in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Work in progress.
It was a good day for hoodies, hot chocolate and huddled masses on Friday at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio. A day that began under sunny skies with temperatures in the 70s turned blustery as a mid-afternoon storm front blew through, sending temperatures plummeting and pelting festival-goers with intermittent cold rain. […]
Director Tim Nakashi and Fool’s Gold wade into some hazy, nostalgic psychedelia in their new video for the band’s song “The Dive.” The quintet’s sophomore album “Leave No Trace,” a cross-cultural pop potpourri of frisky beats and prickly guitars topped by singer Luke Top’s croon, came out last year. They have a slew of May […]
This seems a whole lot better than fighting crowds, doesn’t it? (Not really.) But you can partake in the Coachella experience by watching more than 60 bands live on the festival’s YouTube channel. Live streaming begins today at 3:50 p.m. Pacific time and runs through Sunday midnight. On the menu: The Black Keys, Swedish House […]
[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, […]
[Get pumped with new songs from these artists playing Coachella this weekend…] Yuck, “Chew” – Playing Coachella on Friday: London’s Yuck has never apologized for loving the ’90s and we won’t ever expect one, but there’s no need. Shoegaze and pop-lovers steadily praised last year’s debut album from Yuck, and now they return with “Chew.” […]
Time is a funny thing, especially when you can look back and be amused by how people have changed. However, in Feist‘s latest music video for “Bittersweet Melodies” off of her album “Metals,” Argentinean photographer Irina Werning focuses on how some people can stay the same by recreating old photos. Subjects in this photo essay […]
[The Buzz Bands LA crew will be in Indio for the first weekend of the doubleheader in the desert, scribbling notes and taking photographs between predictable attacks of nostalgia, next-big-thing giddiness and dehydration. Coachella 2012 offers a mind-boggling array of current and past favorites to suit just about any palette – no whining about the […]
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. […]
[A few new tunes from L.A. bands we had recently written about…] Hands, “Come to Know” – Although their name has only gotten slightly easier to Google, Hands finally released their long-awaited “Massive Context” EP this week, via Small Plates. Based on their live shows (like this one), the six genre-melding and multi-textured songs are […]