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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

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

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