October 30, 2009 2009 Voodoo Experience New Orleans, LA The Voodoo Experience in New Orleans is in its eleventh year. Yet somehow, year after year, it’s one music festival I had yet to enjoy until yesterday. Voodoo has been on my to-do list for several years, not only because I hadn’t done it yet, but [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 26, 2009
Spaceship Rides Aren’t Cheap, But They’re Worth It: U2 at The Rose Bowl
October 25, 2009 U2 360 Tour The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA Bono – you’ve made some mistakes, but all is forgiven. U2 – with The 360 Tour, you reminded us why you’re #1 (you were facing some competition there for a while). Some amazing new music has been released and several extraordinary live shows have [...]
October 24, 2009
Nine Inch Nails “The Downward Spiral” Live at Webster Hall
Webster Hall, NY Although I attended each of the Nine Inch Nails club shows during the Los Angeles leg of the “Wave Goodbye” tour, I did not go to their show at Webster Hall in New York. Nine Inch Nails’ performance at Webster Hall was unique because they played The Downward Spiral in its entirety, [...]
October 23, 2009
The Pilgrimage of U2
Preparing for Sunday’s show at The Rose Bowl “Every time we play here it’s like a pilgrimage” Bono said to my friends and me following U2‘s 2005 show at Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. That show was also a pilgrimage for the four of us – two traveling in from New York, one traveling [...]
October 21, 2009
Owl City in The City of Angels
October 20, 2009 The Troubadour You would actually think that something as absurd as owls taking over the city was happening in LA tonight, based on the hype surrounding this gig. There were several other compelling shows going on simultaneously this evening, but if you were anywhere other than the Troubadour, then it’s probably because [...]
October 19, 2009
“Monsters” of Folk at The Greek
October 18, 2009 The Greek Theater, LA Monsters. What do you think of when you hear the word “monsters”? Now imagine you hear the words “monsters of folk”. . . Do you hear it as “Monsters!! (arrrgggggrrrrr) of folk!!!”?? Or do you read it to mean that they’re so folk – the extreme folk – [...]
October 16, 2009
Where The Wild Things Were: Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub
October 15, 2009 Troubadour, Los Angeles A movie I really wanted to see – Where The Wild Things Are - opened at midnight and I forgot all about it. The Flaming Lips were playing a “secret” show at a pop-up store in Hollywood and I didn’t care (although I did wonder how they would fit [...]
October 14, 2009
Brett Dennen at Library Alehouse
October 14, 2009 Library Alehouse, Santa Monica Carson Daly Taping People sometimes ask me why I “bother” with Twitter. They don’t understand its application in everyday life and think of Twitter as another unnecessary distraction. So here are a few reasons I love Twitter: Nine Inch Nails last show ever, Thom Yorke “secret” show at [...]
October 8, 2009
Fever Ray, Trent Reznor, Henry Fonda, and Me
Henry Fonda Theater October 7, 2009 The last time I was at the Henry Fonda Theater it was to see Nine Inch Nails’s second-to-last concert (theoretically) ever. NIN absolutely destroyed the place! Not cosmetically, but existentially. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever experienced. They took all my previously fond memories of past [...]
