The L.A. Times Pop & Hiss blog is all over this news, but the HARD L.A. festival scheduled for Saturday at Los Angeles State Historic Park has been canceled for security reasons. The cancellation comes about a year after another event from DJ/promoter Gary Richards, HARD Summer, was shut down after crowds at the Forum […]
A busy night just got busier – Australian rockers Wolfmother are playing a surprise show [update: at 6 p.m.] at the Roxy. It’s for Yahoo! Music, and Andrew Stockdale [pictured] and his (new) bandmates, who teased L.A. audiences with a show back in April at the Natural History Museum and who crashed last weekend’s Sunset […]
[Contributor Ali MacLean was not missing in action during this set:] A month and a half after giving birth, and two months after pogoing on the Grammys stage practically in labor, M.I.A. was back to delight the Coachella crowds. Though she has a strong message for her disciples: “Just because I’ve been to the Grammys […]
[Temps are expected to reach triple-digits today – can we just move this festival up a week? … Oh.] 1. Three years out of the past four, including Saturday’s headlining mega-party: M.I.A. simply ought to have her own stage at Coachella. 2. Thirty minutes in the Do Lab will make you believe anybody can be […]
[News & notes from a weekend of catching up …] ‣ I recently revisited “Sleepwalking Through the Mekong,” the 75-minute film by John Pirozzi that documents Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever’s 2005 visit to singer Chhom Nimol’s native Cambodia. It’s just as striking now as it seemed when I saw one of the initial screenings […]
