Update: My Bloody Valentine announced just before midnight London time that they have posted their new album to their website. Like many, we suspect, we are getting a “server too busy” message. Previously:
Story and photos by Matt Draper In 1983, after his fanzine and club night had culminated, a Scot named Alan McGee formed an imprint he called Creation to release records from like-minded friends. “73 in 83”, a single from art-rock band The Legend! became the label’s first release after McGee secured a £1,000 loan. Though […]
Top show picks should you need aural cleansing after watching the Grammys: ‣ Guitarist-around-town Blake Mills (pictured) quietly released a very good solo album, “Break Mirrors,” in 2010. The guy who has played with Julian Casablancas, Jenny Lewis, Band of Horses, Jesca Hoop and Simon Dawes (among others) plays a free show tonight at the […]
Hope Sandoval is fading back into you – the former Mazzy Star siren, who has since collaborated with the likes of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Air, the Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack, has a new album, “Through the Devil Softly,” coming out Sept. 1 as part of her project with My Bloody Valentine’s Colm […]
As night (and, mercifully, temperatures) fell on on the final day of Coachella, it was time for a festival-ending sampler platter. Since I’d seen My Bloody Valentine on Thursday at the El Rey Theatre, I ducked into the Mojave Tent, where U.K. four-piece the Horrors were doing their own take on gloomy, overarching shoegazer rock. […]
Almost as impressive at the sheets of white noise My Bloody Valentine laid down Thursday night at the El Rey Theatre –12 consecutive minutes of it at one point – was how those in the packed house pantomimed the experience. As Kevin Shields and mates meted out sonic blasts that shook the furniture as well […]
[One day left till Coachella, and my schedule sheet looks like a 4-year-old practiced drawing circles, lines and arrows on it. So many tough decisions this year …] Tonight isn’t any easier. My Bloody Valentine shakes the chandeliers at the El Rey Theatre, and the Black Keys have a pre-Coachella show at the Glass House […]
Quite a night at the Echo on Monday – it was packed to the gills for Fool’s Gold, then packed again for the midnight set of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. The late act then proceeded to play for an hour-plus and come back for an encore. Which you just don’t see out of […]
Headliners for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival include Paul McCartney, the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, the Killers, Franz Ferdinand and Morrissey. The festival just posted the full lineup for the three-day event April 17-19 in Indio. Among the other performers: X, Paul Weller, Amy Winehouse, Public Enemy, TV on the Radio, the Yeah […]
[Some 200-plus shows later, here are my favorite sets of 2008, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1 . You have a favorite? Tell me about it in the comments …] 10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jan. 25, Safari Sam’s: Probably my fondest memory of Safari Sam’s, the east Hollywood club whose lowlights exceeded […]
