Free concerts, record-release parties, music legends … a thriller of a Thursday: ‣ The Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier kicks off with indie acts Cults and James Supercave. Free and all-ages, the festivities start at 7 p.m. Above, Cults’ video for “High Road.” ‣ Legendary singer-guitarist Richard Thompson visits Levitt Pavilion MacArthur […]
The final day of the first weekend of Coachella 2013 started off sunny and blissful before a desert storm gummed up the proceedings at the end. Thoughout the day, contributing photographer Scott Dudelson made the rounds – here’s some of what he saw.
Who: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the main stage In 3 or Fewer Words: Palm Springs perdition. Memorable Because: With Sunday night’s windstorm at almost full throttle, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds brought a choir of child singers from the Silverlake Music Conservatory to lend a hand on a few songs, contrasting […]
Dear Coachella: This post could be about 38 bands long, but I’m just afraid of getting RSI. I know it’s become fashionable to take potshots at your lineup – I have no idea what warped sense of entitlement that comes from. You have a nice product, and the excellence in the 2013 lineup runs deep. […]
By Meriah Doty “You have never heard this before until now,” Henry Rollins explained as he sat center-stage at the Echoplex during a listening party he orchestrated as a fundraiser for KCRW-FM on Thursday night. It was a sold-out show featuring music he cannot play on his radio show and personal stories from his past. […]
There’s visceral, and then there is Grinderman, the unhinged side of Nick Cave and three of his Bad Seeds, who on Tuesday night at the Music Box roared with force of five teenage metal-core bands. For 75 minutes, Cave and his hirsute handymen Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos mounted an aural assault so […]
Three sold-out deals tonight: ‣ Grinderman at the Music Box. That’s the video for “Heathen Child,” above, and if that’s unsettling there was a great piece in the Guardian recently that will soothe your troubled sensibilities. ‣ Faith No More, the first of two nights at the Palladium, as its reunion tour nears the end. […]
