Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

The xx is still quiet, just not on stage

2013-06-12 09:01:00

Midway through the xx's set at April's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival in Indio, Calif., the London-based trio threw a cover song into its set: Aaliyah's smoldering 1997 single "Hot Like Fire." Solange, the R&B singer and friend of the xx,...

'Harlem Shake' has Baltimore moving, too

2013-02-17 17:29:00

Some guys gave flowers. Others candy. But smooth Rod Lopez, a man in touch with the cultural cutting edge, feted his lady love with a "Harlem Shake" video for Valentine's Day. In it, the 34-year-old owner of a Parkville production company, wearing...

Artscape, 'Face Forward' installation defy drizzle

2012-07-20 18:28:00

Three-year-old Elijah Thomas had just seen a face. And he couldn't have been more excited. "Look, look," Elijah implored, turning his head to his mother and pointing at a 15-foot metal face about 20 feet away, its mouth opening and closing as the...

The Black Keys, a rock band thriving in a world of pop

2012-05-15 09:37:00

"Rock 'n' roll will never die," sang Neil Young in 1979. Lately, though, it seems to be in a coma. How else to describe the sad state of rock? The Billboard charts are filled with pop acts, rappers and country singers. Even sugary boy-bands have re-...

Coachella 2012: Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre, The Black Keys, Santigold, and seven other must-watch acts

2012-01-10 08:46:00

Just as winter begins to bum everyone out with its dropping temperatures and dark-by-4:30-p.m. routine, the newly liberated Coachella lineup has us daydreaming of spring and a weekend trip to the west coast. Seemingly every year, Coachella sets the...

TV on the Radio, Cee Lo Green, Black Keys to headline 2011 Virgin Mobile Freefest

2011-07-10 11:36:24

TV on the Radio, Cee Lo Green, the Black Keys and Patti Smith are among the headliners at this year’s Virgin Mobile FreeFest, which returns to Merriweather Post Pavilion Sept. 10, organizers will announce today. The announcement follows months of...

Ellie Goulding tries to break through in America

2011-03-17 12:32:00

There are so many big-voiced female British singers, it's hard to keep track of them. There's Adele, out with new album "21," and there's Duffy, of the ubiquitous "Mercy." Then there's Florence Welch and Elly Jackson, of La Roux, not to mention the ones...

Big Time Rush kicks into radio action, readies Summer Break Tour

2013-06-15 16:35:00

On a recent afternoon at a Burbank production studio, the members of Big Time Rush were shooting a music video for their song "24/Seven," a characteristically chipper ode to living every day like a holiday. After the shoot the Nickelodeon-bred boy band...

Dodgeball a grand slam for WeHo social scene

2013-06-15 00:00:00

It's Thursday night, and in the West Hollywood Recreation Center, it's pandemonium. On the court, Hit It and Quit It faces off against Scissor Me Timbers. Again and again, they charge back and forth in waves, rallying and hooting. Cheesy '80s anthems...

Cold-pressed juice, hot in L.A.

2013-06-15 00:00:00

Shortly after Chipper Pastron opened the first Juice Farm in Pasadena in January, a developer asked if he'd be interested in setting up another in the same neighborhood. No way, Pastron said, thinking there wouldn't be enough demand. Six months in and...

93-5 'KHY Rock Report

2013-06-14 00:00:00

Headlines for Monday, June 17, 2013 ROBERT PLANT: Will He Accept the Olive Branch? David Coverdale�wants to apologize to�Robert Plant�for negative things he said 20 years ago. In 1993, Jimmy Page teamed up with the�Whitesnake�frontman for an album...

How did Riot Fest land the Replacements reunion?

2013-06-14 06:35:04

MINNEAPOLIS Every year when he draws up a list of acts he wants to perform at the festival he dreamt up a decade ago in his basement in Chicago, Riot Fest founder Mike Petryshyn always throws the Replacements' name on as a "doesn't-hurt-to-ask" act. He...

The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival crowd in 2012.

2013-05-20 10:40:14

Musician Kurt Vile performs at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival earlier this year.

2013-05-15 13:40:00

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, right, performs with Rapper 2 Chainz during the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indo, Calif.

2013-05-10 16:52:37