Crystal Castles (music group)

Music and identity crisis on the Sunset Strip

2013-06-07 09:00:00

This post has been corrected, please see below for details. In March, the Sunset Strip music venue the Key Club announced that it was closing for good. Few local music fans were especially surprised. The venue had operated in various guises since...

HARD Summer 2013: Knife Party, Dog Blood and Bassnectar headline

2013-04-23 09:41:00

If you liked the Sahara tent at Coachella, you're going to love the lineup at this year's HARD Summer. Several of the fest's major dance headliners, including neo-dubsteppers Knife Party, the Skrillex/Boys Noize project Dog Blood and the hirsute low-end...

Lollapalooza 2013: Which day rocks the hardest?

2013-05-14 08:20:00

Lollapalooza presented festivalgoers with some difficult choices Tuesday when it announced its hour-by-hour schedule for the three-day, sold-out festival. Two headliners a day will play simultaneously at opposite ends of Grant Park: Nine Inch Nails and...

Lollapalooza on way to sellout; day-by-day lineups set

2013-04-01 19:15:00

Lollapalooza will put 60,000 single-day tickets on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. central for the festival Aug. 2-4 in Grant Park. The only question remaining is how fast they’ll sell out. The festival’s entire lineup leaked weeks early last...

Lollapalooza lineup to include Cure, Nine Inch Nails

2013-03-28 13:45:00

The Cure and Nine Inch Nails will join previously confirmed acts Mumford & Sons, the Killers, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, the National and the Postal Service at Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 2-4. Multiple industry sources confirmed Thursday that a...

Miami Music Week: And the beats go on

2013-03-15 00:00:00

With Ultra Music Festival's addition of a second weekend to celebrate its 15 years, March 15 marks the start of a two-week block saturated with dubstep, house, and drum and bass. The headliners are no surprise: There's Tiesto, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and...

Ultra Music Festival expansion to two weekends OK'd in Miami

2013-01-11 04:38:00

In a decision that should surprise no one, the Miami City Commission on Thursday night rejected a bid to halt an expansion of the city’s massive Ultra Music Festival, allowing the lucrative March event to book a second weekend of electronic music at...

Ultra Music Festival 2013: Second weekend in peril?

2013-01-09 05:43:00

The Miami City Commission on Thursday may vote to kill a scheduled second weekend of the city's� massive Ultra Music Festival, and not because they fear there isn’t enough good DJ music to fill three more days. Citing noise, traffic and “...

'Crystal Castles (III)' album review

2012-11-12 00:00:00

** stars (out of four) One look over the tracklist for Crystal Castles’ third album, which features the titles “Plague,” “Sad Eyes” and “Child I Will Hurt You,” should be enough to reassure any listener that...

Sweetlife Festival line-up announced

2012-03-07 07:11:00

Avicii, Kid Cudi and the Shins will headline the Sweetlife Music Festival this year, it was announced Wednesday morning. Scheduled for April 28, the one-day festival is in its third year and its second at Merriweather Post Pavilion.�The Strokes and...

Rockin' Detroit Bar celebrates 10 years

2011-10-13 21:13:00

Club Mesa, a popular Costa Mesa destination for punk shows in the 1980s and '90s, is long gone. A decade ago The Memphis Group transformed the old club at 843 W. 19th St. into Detroit Bar. It hasn't stopped rocking Orange County. On Saturday, Detroit...

Lollapalooza Day 1: Hello, Brazil, and Coldplay says 'So long' to Amy Winehouse

2011-08-05 23:57:00

Day 1 of Lollapalooza 2011 is in the books, as the first of 130 bands played on eight stages Friday in Grant Park. Attendance was maxed out – with 90,000 people expected each of three days at the festival. Here’s how Friday went down, with...

Crystal Castles singer Alice Glass dives into the crowd at Lollapalooza in Grant Park. A record 90,000 attended the opening day of the concert, and 180,000 are expected Saturday and Sunday.

2011-08-05 00:00:00

Crystal Castles dives into the crowd while performing on the opening day of Lollapalooza .

2011-08-04 22:00:00