Live Review: LA Weekly’s Detour Festival, downtown Los Angeles

October 4, 2008 Week Of Shows, Episode Eight “Who is this playing?” I look to see who’s asking. It’s a police officer – the kind who could snap me in two if so inclined — his huge, dark body barely contained by his deep blue uniform. “Golgol Bordello,” I reply. “What?” Even though we’re standing at the very back of the […] […]

Live Review: The Dandy Warhols at The Wiltern Theater

October 3, 2008 Week Of Shows, Episode Seven If all you knew about The Dandy Warhols’ leader – Courtney Taylor-Taylor – came from the documentary DiG!, you might be under the impression that he’s an ego-motivated, publishing royalty-hogging narcissist. And you’re probably right. But whether or not he’s a danger to himself and his band, he’s also […] […]

Live Review: My Bloody Valentine at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

October 1, 2008 Week Of Shows, Episode Five Somewhere north of a Verve reunion and south of a Police reunion, a My Bloody Valentine reunion has rated as one of rock music lovers’ best hoped-for events. All artists should be as blessed as MBV during their unofficial retirement. Since the release of their critically loved but commercially underperforming […] […]

Live Review: Sigur Ros at The Greek Theatre (Review 2)

October 2, 2008 Week Of Shows, Episode Six Do you believe in faeries? Sprites, pixies, nymphs, woodland spirits, angels? Perhaps you should. Because to experience Iceland’s Sigur Ros live is to witness an event so elemental and pure as to be otherworldly in its divinity – cascading, sonorous epics and simple hymns proposed with love and reverence for all […] […]