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At the Hollywood Bowl, Grace Jones Proves She's, Well, Just Differentnew
In case you need reminding after all these years, Grace Jones isn't like us. If, halfway through her astounding show Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl, a flying saucer had descended from above and carried her away, few in the crowd would have been too surprised.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
07-31-2009 |
Concerts
Coachella: Indio Times 10new
Goldenvoice's Paul Tollett on the decade-old music festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
03-20-2009 |
Concerts
Coachella by the Numbersnew

Any critic can blather about which bands to see. What if we poke out the critical eye and instead consult our all-seeing Third Eye -- which conjures solid numbers, statistics, pie charts and bar graphs and turns the ephemeral joys of music into cold, hard data? What constitutes -- numerically -- musical hotness in the USA in 2008?
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
04-18-2008 |
Concerts
Vegoose Music Festival Pleases Some of the People Some of the Timenew
Vegoose, like all 21st-century music festivals, is for the short-attention-spanned, a good way to consume many live experiences briefly.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
11-02-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Vegoose Music Festival, concerts
The Unexpected Burning Man Soundtracknew
To civilians, trance = Burning Man, but this is merely the most obvious take. For one week a year the desert floor, a naturally occurring woofer pumping 100 million watts, becomes the world's greatest iPod shuffle.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
09-17-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts