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Summertime has become the make-or-break time slot for bands who toil in the indie rock arena and look to make a step up in venues they can fill. In some instances, Arcade Fire being on top of the list right now, important tours follow the release of a new album, ...
By now, it’s clear that many extraordinary things happen whenever Gustavo Dudamel conducts at the Hollywood Bowl. First, the obvious; the attendance swells to at least twice the amount usually seen at classical events here — 13,970 on Tuesday night. The Los Angeles Philharmonic plays with an extra zip and ...
Live Events ”I feel so, like, fancy up here,” Joanna Newsom demurred from behind her signature pedal harp in a billowing evening gown, midway through her performance at L.A.’s Orpheum Theater on Saturday night. The re-mark was one of her many attempts to diffuse the high-culture trappings of the evening, but ...
Though an all-Mozart concert would not be the most glamorous programming imaginable at the Hollywood Bowl, it’s simple to make the case for the composer outdoors. He manages to satisfy everyone from the casual picnicker who needs tiny more than pleasant background sound to those who find in his work ...
Presented by Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. Reviewed July 14, 2010. Performers: Smokey Robinson (Karri Benoit, Robert Bowles, Harold “Tony” Lewis, Gary Foote, James Pappas, S’Von Ringo, Serena Henry, Tracie Burton, Linda Cevallos French, Kenneth Gioffre, Amon Bourne); Lizz Wright (Nicholas Damato, Kenny Banks, Jano Rix, Robin Macatangay, Marvin Sewell). At 70, ...
Shows billed as “solo acoustic” usually have a laid-back, mellower-than-mellow feel, but Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, more a one-woman band than girl with a guitar, turned that clich on its head Tuesday night in Gotham with a performance that was as raucous as any she’d delivered with a full band. ...
Presented by Live Nation. Reviewed July 10, 2010. Bands: Sarah McLachlan, Miranda Lambert, Jenni Rivera, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile; Marina and the Diamonds, Molly Jenson, Elizaveta, Susan Justice, The Weepies, Jes Hudak. It’s been 11 years since Sarah McLachlan last convened Lilith Fair, in that time it has lost both a good ...
Bands: (FK&PF) Femi Kuti, Osunniran Adekunle Solomon, Alobalorun Olusola, Bankole Daniel, Opeyemi Omotayo Awomolo, Ajayi Oluwaseun Omorilewa, Bankole Dotun Babatunde, Adewunmi Seye John, Tiwalade Olusegun Ogunlowo, Ademola Simeon Adegbola, Adebowale Oloko, Bosede Ajila, Bernards Anthonia Kemona, Kate Onome Udi; (TB) Terence Blanchard, Fabian Almazan, Joshua Crumbly, Kendrick Scott, Brice Winston; ...
It’s the biggest band I’ve ever had,” crowed Sting as he stood in front of London’s Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. Can’t dispute that. This gigantic performing apparatus is accompanying the English rock star on his Symphonicity Tour, in which he is vertically, and in some ...
While AR Rahman got his first taste of mainstream recognition in the States via his kudo-magnet soundtrack work on “Slumdog Millionaire,” he is long been something of a rock star in South Asian households around the world — a reputation he is clearly hoping to further with the aggressively ambitious ...