Damon Albarn

Coachella 2013: Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline

2013-01-24 22:09:00

Last year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival used technological trickery to make it look as if Tupac Shakur had been brought back to life. So what do you do for an encore to one of pop music’s biggest magic shows? Coachella organizers have...

Live review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are positively explosive

2013-01-14 05:00:00

This post has been updated. See below for details. A number of factors contributed to the power of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' show in Pomona on Friday night. Among them: the fans, the venue, the spirit, the sound, the moshing, the opening band, the headliners...

2012 in review: Pop music's most memorable moments

2012-12-24 09:59:00

Pop & Hiss weighs in on the most notable music moments of the year. L.A. owns 2012: Our fair city never lacks for great rising artists, but rarely have two locals so dominated the national conversation with groundbreaking, major-label albums. Kendrick...

Bobby Womack says he has Alzheimer's disease

2013-01-02 11:14:00

After sparking widespread comeback chatter last year with his album "The Bravest Man in the Universe," soul singer Bobby Womack has announced that he's experiencing early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. "The doctor says, 'You have signs of Alzheimer's,...

Operas and orgasms -- did ENO go too far with 'Don Giovanni' ad?

2012-10-08 06:30:00

In 2010, the English National Opera in London generated some debate over its modern staging of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" that featured a couple of scenes of sexual assault, including one of a gang rape of a woman. This season, the company is once again...

Dan the Automator, Dogfish concoct a beer/music mash-up

2012-06-22 21:38:42

Album review: Bobby Womack's 'The Bravest Man in the Universe'

2012-06-12 16:38:17

Album review: Damon Albarn's 'Dr Dee'

2012-05-08 16:37:11

In Rotation: Rocket Juice & the Moon's eponymous debut

2012-04-26 16:36:01

Album review: Amadou & Mariam's 'Folila'

2012-04-10 04:36:46

A new beginning for the Chili Peppers

2011-08-07 00:00:00

The first day of rehearsals was another momentous occasion for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was fall 2009, more than three years since the band last toured, and the rockers were beginning the hard work of rebirth with a new guitarist, Josh Klinghoffer....

Foster the People: Pumped up, indeed

2011-06-26 00:00:00

The time slot was an unforgiving one and the venue even worse. When Foster the People ambled onstage at noon on the final full day of the nearly weeklong South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, in March, it was exhaustion rather than...

Phoenix, Blur and Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

2013-03-07 11:12:00

Blur's Damon Albarn, left, and director Rufus Norris introduce the English National Opera's "Undress for Opera" program in London.

2012-10-03 00:00:00

British musician and composer Damon Albarn, left, performs a scene with Paul Hilton for the new opera "Dr Dee," about a fall from grace of a mathematician and astrologer of the Elizabethan age.

2012-07-12 18:03:00