Roger Waters

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Classic Rock Is a Cancer on Our Society

There's a disease spreading through our generation of 20- and 30-year-olds. We inherited this malady from our parents, and it's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars, and phones -- even into our kar ... More >>

The Ten Best Los Angeles Concerts of 2012

10. My Morning Jacket The Wiltern, September 11-13 The ever-electrifying My Morning Jacket held a three-night stint at the Wiltern this past September and didn't repeat a single tune. That's right. Three nights and no repeats. It takes one heck of a repertoire not just to have that many songs, but t ... More >>

What Makes the Hollywood Bowl So Perfect?

Is the Hollywood Bowl southern California's most beloved performance space? Quite possibly. Where else do folks brag not just about seeing an act, but about attending a venue itself? Seating 17,376 patrons, it hosts shows six-out-of-seven nights a week --Tuesdays and Thursdays are classical, Wednesd ... More >>

L.A. Will Now Treat Scalpers Like Gang Members

That guy with the cardboard sign yelling "Tickets!" is on par with a gangbanger. At least that's the message City Attorney Carmen Trutanich sent with an announcement yesterday that Los Angeles will institute the nation's first-ever scalper injunction. What that means is that "known scalpers" -- 17 o ... More >>

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio

Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others

The Last DJ: The Legendary Jim Ladd Gets The Ax

​They fired Jim Ladd on a Tuesday. Ladd had been the nighttime DJ on L.A. classic rock station KLOS, in various incarnations, since 1969. He's a rare DJ with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and inspired Tom Petty's song "The Last DJ." Cumulus Media, having absorbed bankrupt former KLOS ow ... More >>

M83 - The Music Box - 11/9/11

Ian Cohen​See also: M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without The Movie M83 The Music Box 11-9-11 Better than: Having to actually be 16 again. At the risk of completely disavowing any claims of critical distance, this was the concert event of 2011 for yours truly and I don't care wh ... More >>

Amon Tobin - The Music Box - 10/16/11

Brian Erzen ​Amon Tobin The Fonda 10/16/11 Better than: All that shit that happened at Burning Man while you were on acid and can't remember anyway. For trogedytes and other uninitiated, Amon Tobin is a Brazilian electronic composer and producer now in the middle of a mad project to radicall ... More >>

Elliott Smith Memorial Wall Gets a New Face--Again

Elliott Smith's Figure 8 cover art​Don't mess with memorials, especially ones dedicated to musicians tragically gone far too soon. Last spring, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters incited a minor riot (ok, in the comments section of this blog post, but still) when the viral street campai ... More >>

Patrick Range McDonald Named Best Print Journalist of the Year by L.A. Press Club; LA Weekly Takes Home 5 More Awards

Patrick Range McDonald: awesome, officially.​In case you're wondering why the L.A. blogroll looks kind of groggy this morning: A couple hundred Los Angeles journalists took last night off, putting on their Sunday best for the Press Club Awards, a schmancy round of self-congratulations and free ... More >>

Charlie Gilmour, Son of Pink Floyd's Guitarist, Charged with Violent Disorder at Student Riot (and with Stealing a Mannequin's Leg)

​While the children of American rock stars wallow in decadence and (repeatedly) try to get their own reality shows, British rock children are trying to become, as Mick Jagger once taught them, "street-fightin' men." Witness the exploits of young man Charlie Gilmour, long-haired son of Pink Flo ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Lemmy Talks about the Decay of Good Strip Clubs in LA, Asshole Politicians, and What He's Reading Right Now ("Winnie the Pooh"--No, Really)

Gustavo TurnerAt the Rainbow: Lemmy's buddy Scottie, Lemmy's son Paul Inder, Lemmy's movie co-director Greg Olliver, lovely Rainbow bartender Kristin, some English dude, Lemmy's movie co-director Wes Orshoski​Last week, more than usual, it was Lemmy-Geddon in L.A. Starting with the icon-studde ... More >>

Top 10 Crazy and Ridiculous Music Photos of 2010

Top 10 Crazy and Ridiculous Photos of the Year

Tonight: Faith No More, Roger Waters, Grinderman, the Frames, Street Drum Corps

Grinderman​When Nick Cave unveiled Grinderman -- his project with Bad Seeds bandmates Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos and Martyn Casey -- the Australian songwriter described the music as a soundtrack to "a massive midlife crisis." So we suppose it's both good (for consumers) and bad (for the 53-y ... More >>

Roger Waters Brings his Anti-Corporate Fable "The Wall" to the Staples Center, Slash Shows Up WITHOUT Top Hat!!!

Timothy NorrisFascinating Fascism: Roger Waters at the Staples Center​ [For more photos of this show see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Roger Waters Brings 'The Wall' to Staples Center".] Roger Waters, Syd Barrett's former bass player, brought his anti-war, anti-corporate extravanza "The Wall Liv ... More >>

Tonight: The Books, Roger Waters, Belleruche, Chasing Kings, Black Apples, Standing Shadows

We're still hung over from Thanksgiving after-parties, so we'll leave it to you to process all the information in "A Cold Freezin' Night," from the Books' first album in five years, The Way Out. For four albums, the duo of Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto have been the experimentalists' experimental ... More >>

Music Picks: The Hangmen, Brother Ali, Tommy Rock-A-Shacka, Weezer

Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others

Watch: Crazy Ass Fatlip from Pharcyde Returns with New Electro Sound, English Accent, Lines About L.A. Women and Marilyn Manson

Fatlip struts his stuff in Hollywood.​Often troubled but admirably candid L.A. rapper Fatlip has returned with a brand new sound. The former Pharcyde member goes electro-funk in a just-out video for the unreleased song, "LA Girls." We assume he's not talking about the kind of L.A. girl that h ... More >>

Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid

Across the Universe: WTF is 'Rape Gaze?,' Ben Harper/Dino Lady Split, Gaga Needs Some Air and Waters Changes 'Wall' Vid

Roger Waters Now in Hot Water over Supposedly Anti-Semitic Images in "The Wall" Stage Show

Stars of David bombs followed by Dollar Sign bombs? How could anyone possibly misread that?​And... here we go again: now the Anti-Defamation League is upset about supposedly anti-semitic messages in Roger Waters' current The Wall stage-show. Here's the problem with Roger Waters: he's always t ... More >>

Fixing Coachella

Goldenvoice plans to regain the fans' love after a chaotic 2010 festival. Two words: fewer people

Roger Waters vs. Elliott Smith's Wall

Street art in the global village

Roger Waters Apologizes for Elliott Smith Memorial Wall "Accident"

​Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters gave an interview to the LA Times this morning where he offered his apologies for defacing Elliott Smith's memorial mural with his viral campaign for his upcoming The Wall Live shows. "Though the oft-abused wall has also been a favorite target for tagg ... More >>

Roger Waters Paid Street Artists to Deface Elliott Smith Memorial Mural

This is major-label viral marketing gone wild. Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has launched a "viral," "street" campaign for his upcoming The Wall Live tour, which consists of hiring street artists in LA and NYC to strategically place a pacifist quote by Dwight "WTF" Eisenhower on several " ... More >>

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gives Props to Republican President in Public Art Stunt

Notice the familiar The Wall-ish font on the wall?​ This weekend, Pink Floyd's former frontman Roger Waters is issuing a kind of pacifist call to arms in the spirit of Banksy (or is it in the spirit of Mr. Brainwash?) by projecting humongous quotes from Republican president Dwight Eisenhower ... More >>

Phish at Coachella, Night One: An Expansive Introduction

By Jeff Miller For me, watching a Phish festival on the same field that hosts Coachella each year's like introducing your college friends to your high school friends for the first time: you love them both equally, but there's always something kind of...off about that first introduction. Though they ... More >>

Coachella: Indio Times 10

Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett on the decade-old music festival

Divided We Stand: Art of Two Germanys

Both sides now at LACMA

Rock Picks: Beirut, The Cure, Jonathan Richman

And other May 29-June 5 shows

Rock Picks: R.E.M., Von Bondies, Ladytron

And other May 22-29 shows

Good Times Never Seemed So Good: Snapshots From Coachella

From the express train to the Gobi Tent to the VIP and beyond

Coachella Sunday Photos

Click here for Timothy Norris' photos of Roger Waters, Sia, Love & Rockets, My Morning Jacket and more.

Let the Grieving Process Begin: Pink Floyd's Inflatable Pig Found Dead

It's a hard time for everyone, I know. But we have to get through this together. The LA Weekly would like to open the comments section so you, the reader, can share your thoughts and remembrances on Roger Waters' and Pink Floyd's inflatable pig, dead, we're assuming, as a result of exploding. The ... More >>

Coachella Offers Reward for Return of Inflatable Pig

I wish I could say that this was a joke, but I saw the damned pig float away myself Sunday night during Roger Waters' set at Coachella. As it drifted up, I contemplated why Waters would release the pig, endanger the airplane circling the field advertising something or other, and litter the earth no ... More >>

Coachella Wrap-Up: Is Santogold This Year's MVP?

If there was one transformative performance at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, I'd say it was Santogold's Friday night statement-of-purpose. The festival, which wrapped up last night with a Pink Floyd flashback courtesy of Roger Waters and a furious day-long Sahara tent throwdo ... More >>

Coachella Day Three: Neil Diamond's Amazing Performance Opening for Justice

Sunday at the Empire Polo Field is softer than Saturday, more like Seurot than the previous day's Van Gogh, a little hazy and lazy and everybody's sleeping off last night's feast. Sunday = day of rest, except that at Coachella that's not true, at least in the Sahara tent, which is packed with LA's k ... More >>

Coachella Day Three: The Dangers of Chromeo

Chromeo at Coachella By Chris Martins Roger Waters was neck-deep in pyrotechnics and paisley. The Gobi Tent was done, abandoned 'til next year, and the grass 'round second stage was given up to sleepers, trippers and young love. Black Mountain was beardily spinning country-fried psychedelia to a sm ... More >>

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

Stefon Harris Dukes it out at Jazz Bakery

Jazz, metal and wildlife

Rock Picks

For the week of Oct. 5–12

Rock Picks

For Sept. 28 – Oct. 5

The Madcap Passed

Syd Barrett, 1946–2006

''Do Not Hesitate''

The Great Pig in the Sky

Money: It’s a hit

Dead Air

Jim Ladd on the demise of freeform radio

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years

Heathen

Chocolate-flavored sex-drugs and more!