Picks for a super Saturday: ‣ The 13th annual Eagle Rock Music Festival goes off along Colorado Boulevard, highlighted by the Low End Theory Stage and its group of beat-scene all-stars (Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Nosaj Thing, Tokimonsta, Nobody and more) but also featuring some great indie artists, including Health, Rooney, Shadow Shadow Shade, Mia […]
Elbow’s sunset serenade on Saturday night at Coachella was one of the festival’s most memorable performances, standing out as a pillar of refinement on a sometimes-raucous day – high tea in a beer bar, if you will. The Manchester quintet today released a new video for “Open Arms,” the new single off their fifth album […]
Who: Elbow in the Mojave Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Gracious goodness. I’ll Remember This Until: The next Mercury Prize winner I see blows me away. The elegant orchestral anthems of Elbow felt like gorgeous landscape paintings in a sea of graffiti in the early-evening heat, but despite competing electricity from Electric Touch and […]
The nominees for the U.K.’s Mercury Music Prize were announced this week, and if about half the shortlisted artists aren’t already familiar to Los Angeles audiences, more will be soon. In fact, the latest (and greatest, if you believe NME’s breathless accounts) synth-pop sensation, La Roux, play to a sold-out Troubadour tonight, with four other […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Rufus Wainwright today. Meanwhile, big doings all over SoCal tonight:] No Doubt’s return to the road has been triumphant, from all the reviews, and it finally hits the band’s native southern California tonight. Paramore is the main support band at the sold-out Gibson Amphitheatre, and although they don’t seem to […]
