Update: Click the image for photos from the Rilo Kiley show.
It was a wonderful evening at The Grove of Anaheim: lady lead singers with incredible voices and endless musical talents – backed by the boys who love them. Grand Ole Party jolted the evening forward with cutie pie, Kristen Gundred owning the shit out of her drum set and with a killer Karen O-esque voice to boot! Later she would play percussion flawlessly alongside Rilo Kiley for a couple of songs.
The Bird and the Bee created a m
Yeah Yeah Yeahs. So great. Right now they're doing "Maps." You know, from that video game Rock Band! That picture is from them doing "Cheated Hearts." They were just on Saturday Night Live eight days ago (with host Zac Efron! OMG!) and here they are at Coachella. Pretty cool. I raved about their new album just a few weeks ago in the Weekly, and they did plenty of tracks from that: "Dull Life." "Zero." "Skeletons." And of course, Karen O is wearing a fetching glittery gold outfit. At least it loo
Costa Mesa dancey-electro trio Pop Noir will be opening up for noted English indie rockers Doves (also a trio! weird!) during two of their southern California dates this week--Thursday at the House of Blues in San Diego, and Friday right here (well, "here," relatively speaking) at the House of Blues in Anaheim.
Andrew YoussefLast Night: KROQ Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater; Saturday May 16, 2009. (More pictures here.)Better Than: Wango Tango.Download: Videos from the day at KROQ.com.The KROQ Weenie Roast is typically full of surprises. With
Blink 182 reuniting the night prior at a private party, the fact that
TRV$DJ-AM were closing the evening led to rampant speculation that
Blink-182 would be the final act. But the
Blink-182 reunion didn't happen.A last minute shuffling had KROQ move
Beth StirnamanKaren O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Coachella 2009. She's cool.Well, this rules. Yeah Yeah Yeahs are coming to the lovely Fox Theater in Pomona on September 15. Why, that's nearly a month away--which means that tickets are on sale soon. Like, two hours soon. There's a 24-hour pre-sale going on from 10 a.m. today until 10 a.m. on Friday right here. Password is "BLITZ," as in It's Blitz, their rad third album which came out earlier this year. (Read our review here.) General on-sale, fo
Beth Stirnaman(Don't be confused. This picture is from this year's Coachella.)Last Night: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yacht at the Fox Theater, Pomona; September 15, 2009.Better Than: Your third-straight in-tribute viewing of Road House.Karen O Fashion Report: Pretty conservative: a white dress with primary color patterns, and a matching shawl that she came out wearing like a cape. Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O seems to be strikingly earnest when it comes to her emotions. She looked like she's crying i
