Planet Electronica is This Weekend

If you’re in Southern California this weekend, you don’t want to miss Planet Electronica. This Sunday (July 17), the legendery Hollywood Bowl will be hosting USOUNDS favorites Basement Jaxx, Röyksopp, and Bossacucanova. KCRW’s Jason Bentley will host. The night weather is supposed to be warm, you’ll be outside, and some of the world’s best electronic artists will be on stage… how could you go wrong?

More info and tix available on the Hwood Bowl site

Louis XIV Live and Backstage with Ace Reporter Jack Larson

The sky cracked with the impending fury of a New York City shitstorm as I hoofed it downtown to catch Louis XIV, an act that’s been garnering a dollop of hype and airtime of late. Certain industry insiders had even hinted that their brash blend of rock and hormones was just the thing the music world needed to pull it out of its post-White Strokes doldrums. Well, it’s not often you get to see a bunch of widely heralded Rock ‘n’ Roll saviors on stage in their prime, so I took the offer as a mandate and dragged myself out through the putrid runoff of what passes for early summer in this soul-swallowing hellhole.
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Peter Murphy Live! Photography by Julz Finley

I had seen Peter Murphy 10 years ago, and I was drunk. I met him afterwards and muttered the words “Whoah Peter Fucking Murphy… You’re fucking HOT!” Like he really needed to hear some sloppy drunk giving him kudos, but he was kind and gracious and took it as a compliment.

Fast forward 10 years later… Mr. Murphy is on tour, and I got the opportunity to see him perform live again. This time, I was sober and “camera-ready”.
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