This is a sold-out show. People are milling about outside trying to get tickets as I brush my way past...
May 25, 2007
I almost didn’t make it to this show. The men in my family are notorious for their balky backs, and...
May 20, 2007
My anticipation ran so high that I momentarily forgot, while walking into the Auditorium Theater, that I was walking into...
May 20, 2007
Japanese experimental drum-punk band OOIOO doesn’t seem interested in doing anything in a straightforward manner. Taiga, CMG’s 28th...
Mar 25, 2007
It's Wednesday at the Troubadour and a sold-out crowd is watching Foreign Born play an anthemic, U2-aping set. I'm trying...
Mar 12, 2007
This set of five "low-key" London gigs all sold out in two minutes, seven if you factor in all the...
Feb 15, 2007
Joanna Newsom isn’t a multifaceted artist: she’s a Rubik’s Cube, enigmatic and enveloping. Her new album,
Ys, is...
Dec 04, 2006
Little mermaids of the quicksand quagmire or nu-age MOR indie? A three-headed hydra beast out for your cojones? The Pipettes...
Oct 02, 2006
I haven’t been to the Hollywood Bowl in four years, since I saw Radiohead during my first week in college....
Sep 15, 2006
