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: Nas at the Outdoor Theatre: In 3 or fewer words: Illmatic’s Big 2-0 Memorable because: Despite the fierce winds, biting sand and 15-minute delay, a mass of diehard fans went crazy at the sound of “The Genesis,” the intro track to Nas’s 20-year-old “Illmatic” album. At the song’s conclusion, a single spotlight lit up […]
Friday night fever? Here’s where temperatures will rise: ‣ Simian Mobile Disco headlines the Fonda Theatre. The U.K. duo recently released the four-song EP “A Form of Change,” the follow-up to its album “Unpatterns,” released earlier this year. That’s the video for “I Waited for You,” above. ‣ Nas and Ms. Lauryn Hill wind up […]
Rock the Bells landed in new digs this year – the San Manuel Amphitheatre – and except for some punctuality problems with Mos Def and Talib Kweli, the blowout was viewed as a big success, highlighted by Nas (top photo, with AZ) performing his 1994 “Illmatic.” Check out the review by Passion of the Weiss’ […]
Sunday afternoon at Coachella was cloudless and blistering, but in the wide-open spaces around the main stage and the Outdoor Theatre you could get quite a bit of musical variety to splash on with your sunscreen. Photographer Jim Donnelly hoofed it in the heat to catch the romantic pop of Jack’s Mannequin (top photo and […]
It’s a rather odd pairing – Seattle’s Minus the Bear, with its tongue-in-cheek, sometimes-obtuse prog-pop, touring with L.A. quintet Everest, whose heartfelt Americana is about as earnest as earnest gets. But that’s what’s on tap tonight at the Mayan Theatre. Both bands are touring behind new albums, Minus the Bear’s rather hit-and-miss “Omni” and Everest’s […]
[Birthday greetings go out to Kristin Hersh, long may she rock …] Today: Color me curious about this weekend’s shows by Elefant, the New York City quartet who made a modest splash with their tamed-for-radio dance-punk back in 2003-04. “Misfit” was pretty irrestistible, and the band’s male model-type frontman Diego Garcia did a great job […]
