What’s happening in SoCal this lovely Friday:Â ‣ Coachella Day 1 with the Stone Roses, Blur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse and more. Set times here. ‣ Father Tiger celebrates the release of their EP “Vernal Equinox” tonight at the Virgil. That’s their video for “Head Hung Low” above. ‣ And over at Hotel Café, […]
Set times for 2013’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival have been announced, and if you’re like us at BBLA HQ, you’re already mapping out a game plan for whom you want to see. The thing is, every year always presents some conflicts leaving you no choice but to choose one band over another. […]
Dear Coachella: This post could be about 38 bands long, but I’m just afraid of getting RSI. I know it’s become fashionable to take potshots at your lineup – I have no idea what warped sense of entitlement that comes from. You have a nice product, and the excellence in the 2013 lineup runs deep. […]
Here’s the Coachella lineup. Ticket info: Festival passes for both weekends go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. Festival passes for Weekend 1 must be purchased with a shuttle pass or a car camping pass. New for 2013, the price you see is the price you pay – prices reflect all fees included. […]
Graham Coxon, “The Spinning Top” (Transgressive Records) – In Blur, Graham Coxon provided the necessary counterpoint to Damon Albarn’s ambitious – and most often, fantastic – musical statements.” The tension between Albarn’s postmodern pop and Coxon’s post-punk/indie rock guitar playing became an intrinsic part of Blur’s aesthetic and provided just the right amount of musical […]
Unless you’re British, or an American of a certain age, chances are you don’t know Scott Walker. Oh, you may have heard the voice – the soaring, tremulous baritone behind the ’60s hit “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore” and some other gems from that era. To most, Walker’s name, if it was recalled at […]
I suspect that by tomorrow we will have a lineup for Coachella 2009, or the bulk of one, and like the populace on the message boards, the overlord of the Who Will Play Coachella 2009 blog and the young man who creates these wishful posters (he’s in high school and he has skills), I’m anxious. […]
[Quick notes for a Friday morning … ] ‣ I’ll miss the puppets too. L.A. three-piece the Spores, who combined brash electro-rock with a wildly theatrical stage presentation that included edgy and fanciful puppet characters, have called it quits after five years. ‣ The Blur reunion seems to have everybody atwitter — and wouldn’t their […]
[Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder continues to chronicle the band’s 20th-anniversary tour:] Chapter 2 (Washington, D.C.): You can subtitle this one “The First Victim, or, Why It Pays To Have a Really Great Guitar Tech.” Right before we began rehearsing for this tour in October, I read Alex James’ autobiography, “Bit of a Blur” (2007).” […]
