Also on Friday: The Rocket Summer, BLVD/Mansions on the Moon, Only in Hollywood Festival, Beach Party, Chromeo, King Diamond, Beat Connection, Pacific Radio, Miles Tackett, the Fontaines.
Electronic/rap music blowout HARD Summer moves to its third location in three years Aug. 1-2 when the festival convenes at the Fairplex in Pomona with a lineup featuring the Chemical Brothers (somehow listed after The Weeknd), Jack Ãœ (returning from 2014), Ratatat, Dillon Francis, Schoolboy Q, Porter Robinson, Odesza, the Glitch Mob, Die Antwoord, Chromeo, […]
Incoming: Coachella, System of a Down, Maroon 5, Odessa, Francisco the Man, Dorothy, Winter, Magna, Civil Twilight, Andrew McMahon, Jenny Lewis, the Fontaines, Jim Lauderdale, Great Caesar, the Used, Dutch Party, Jessie Ware, Ride, Tame Impala, Earl Sweatshirt, the Preatures, Lieutenant, Ariana Grande, Drive Like Jehu, Kimbra, Benjamin Booker, Caribou, the Warlocks, the Underachievers, Odesza, […]
Happy Sunday: â–º It’s a loud Sunday with A Place to Bury Strangers headlining the Echoplex in support of their latest album “Transfixiation.” Creepoid and Tennis System also bring some noise. â–º Upstair at the Echo, Bambu presents Part Worker Live with DJ Phatrick. â–º Title Fight does their second SoCal date of the weekend […]
A new electronic music festival headlined by Empire of the Sun and Chromeo will debut in mid-March at Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego. CRSSD Festival – co-promoted by Goldenvoice and the year-old San Diego company FNGRS CRSSD – will go off March 14 and 15, offering three stages of music at a picturesque bayfront […]
Thursday’s thicket of shows: ‣ Zola Jesus [pictured], whose new album “Taiga” came out this week, headlines the El Rey Theatre. ‣ Mark Kozelek’s Sun Kil Moon, recently in the news because of a feud with the War on Drugs [dissected here] instead, regrettably, of the new album “Benji,” plays the Fonda Theatre, supported by […]
Incoming: Belle & Sebastian, Lorde, Boy & Bear, Justin Townes Earle, Dave Rawlings, Mark Gardener, Carbon Leaf, Aeges, Dream Boys, Planets, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the King Khan & BBQ Show, Angus & Julia Stone, Robert Plant, Bishop Allen, Drowners, Halfbluud, Ought, Kasabian, Sondre Lerche, Twenty One Pilots, Shonen Knife, Wartime Recitals, Rose’s Pawn […]
Going to Coachella on Weekend 2? Want to relive the first weekend? Buzz Bands LA covered 53 of the festival’s 184 performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday and published more than 170 photographs. After the jump, we provide quick links to everything:
Who: Chromeo on the Main Stage In 3 or Fewer Words: Safe bet electro-funk Memorable Because: Supposedly there’s an arms race of innovation in the electronic dance world, but while the upstart laptop jocks crawl over each other to get to the top of the Sahara Tent billing, electro-funk vets Chromeo confidently commanded the Main […]
You imagine that the God of Rock ’n’ Roll, taking a break from tuning his Telecaster, cast a wary glance upon the thousands who descended Friday on the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. “Relax, children, it’s just a drumbeat,” He said. “And most of the time it’s not even made by a drum.” Indeed, […]
