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David Bowie, Justin Timberlake are stars of pop music's spring
The winter hibernation is nearing its end. Bleary-eyed musicians are crawling out of their windowless studios after months — and in some cases, years — of isolated dream-capturing. The bottomless espresso cup awaits, and a queue next to the...
Tags: Eric Clapton, PJ Harvey, The xx (music group), Kenny Chesney, Music
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Parsing Coachella 2013: Lineup highlights by genre
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticHow would you book a festival that, regardless of your decisions, was sure to sell out? Would you give the people what they want, or give them what they need? Always the diplomats, those who slotted the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival lineup,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Paul Oakenfold, Genres, Lotus (music group), Swedish House Mafia (music group)
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The Real Deal: R.I.P. Stevo, aka Steven Deal, aka Steven Ceslik
Steven Deal got it. No, I don’t mean cancer, from which he died earlier this week. He got the whole rock & roll thing. On whatever level he chose to play it. Steve was a rock star in the signed-to-a-label sense. He was a rock star in that he could...Tags: Concerts, Music Industry, MTV (tv network), Buzzcocks (music group), Burt Bacharach
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Coachella 2013: Jurassic 5 doesn't know 'how far' reunion can go
Jurassic 5 called it quits in 2007, and if the hip-hop act's catalog isn't exactly old enough to be found encased in amber, there's been little noise on the group since its breakup. It's OK, for instance, to have been completely surprised to see...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Black Eyed Peas (music group), Festive Events, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Fergie (singer)
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Coachella 2013 de-escalates the EDM arms race
For Brit-pop fans, Thursday night's Coachella announcement was like a birthday, Christmas, Hannukah and an unexpected inheritance check all arriving at once. Devotees of the dance-leaning Sahara Tent, however, might be taken aback by the light bill of...
Tags: Paul Oakenfold, Swedish House Mafia (music group), Richie Hawtin, Tiesto (music group), Hanukkah
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Coachella 2013: Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline
Last year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival used technological trickery to make it look as if Tupac Shakur had been brought back to life. So what do you do for an encore to one of pop music’s biggest magic shows? Coachella organizers have...
Tags: Arts and Culture, The xx (music group), Social Distortion (music group), Lollapalooza, New York City
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Live review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are positively explosive
This post has been updated. See below for details. A number of factors contributed to the power of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' show in Pomona on Friday night. Among them: the fans, the venue, the spirit, the sound, the moshing, the opening band, the headliners...
Tags: Concerts, Justin Timberlake, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (music group), New York City, Where the Wild Things Are (movie)
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2012 in review: Pop music's most memorable moments
Pop & Hiss weighs in on the most notable music moments of the year. L.A. owns 2012: Our fair city never lacks for great rising artists, but rarely have two locals so dominated the national conversation with groundbreaking, major-label albums. Kendrick...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Jack White, Searching for Sugar Man (movie)
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Operas and orgasms -- did ENO go too far with 'Don Giovanni' ad?
In 2010, the English National Opera in London generated some debate over its modern staging of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" that featured a couple of scenes of sexual assault, including one of a gang rape of a woman. This season, the company is once again...
Tags: Damon Albarn, Placido Domingo, Entertainment, Terry Gilliam, Opera (genre)
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Menomena's Deceptively Hooky Pop Arrives at Pearl Street in Northampton on Oct. 14
There's already a handy narrative available to guide you through the schizophrenic Moms, the fifth album by Portland, Ore.’s Menomena. Shortly after the 2010 release of Mines, the group parted ways with co-founder Brent Knopf in January of 2011....
Tags: Damon Albarn, Entertainment, Gorillaz (music group), Music, Menomena (music group)
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Kimbra brings 'Vows' to the Fonda Theatre
An experienced presence in her native New Zealand, Kimbra bent American ears -- and quite a few of them -- earlier this year as the female voice on Gotye's Hot 100-topping "Somebody That I Used to Know." But that acoustic quirk-pop hit only hints at a bit...
Tags: Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Bobby Brown, Popular Music (genre), Britney Spears
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Bobby Womack interview: 'I wonder why I'm still here'
Bobby Womack picks up the phone, and speaks what’s on his mind in a voice made of gravel. “I know a lot of people who are not here anymore,” the R&B great says, “and I wonder why I’m still here. … Not a day goes by...
Tags: Music Industry, McCormick Place, Chaka Khan, Sam Cooke, Cancer
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