They should have called it “L.A. Raging.” Rage Against the Machine punctuated L.A. Rising on Saturday a the L.A. Memorial Coliseum with renewed battle cries and thundering rock, providing a big finish to nine hours of music. Muse, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill, El Gran Silencio and Immortal Technique also delivered the goods. Check out Steve […]
With his band Louis XIV in the deep freeze after three albums and thousands of miles of touring, singer-guitarist Jason Hill needed a change. The San Diegan moved to L.A., bought a house in Laurel Canyon, built a recording studio he calls “Ulysses” and retreated to “a life of staying at home and making records,” […]
Eastern Conference Champions have no record label, no manager, no publicist and no lawyer. But on Wednesday the woefully under-appreciated [well, not everywhere] Los Angeles trio landed one of the 15 songs on the soundtrack to “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” – putting them in the company of the likes of Muse, Metric, the Dead Weather, […]
It was as if somebody flipped a switch and turned Coachella into the kinder, gentler (but no less bustling) place of my memories. Saturday’s second day of the 2010 festival was an exuberant affair; gone were the traffic snarls – automobile and human – that sullied the first day. A thin layer of clouds kept […]
