Mark Mauer

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Last Night: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist

Mark Mauer
DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist Hollywood Bowl, June 25 By Carlie Armstrong What began as an interestingly ethnic, slightly gimmicky evening at the Hollywood Bowl soon became a night of elaborate and masterful spinning by the likes of two giants of the mix-master realm: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. African band......
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The Police: Arrested Development

Mark Mauer
Dodger Stadium, June 23 By Siran Babayan Dodgers Stadium. Never Again. I had an easier time getting through the birth canal than I did zigzagging in and out of the stadium’s graveyard of a parking lot where the traffic was so brutally long and slow all four passengers in the......
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The Police: Arrested Development

Mark Mauer
Dodger Stadium, June 23 By Siran Babayan Dodgers Stadium. Never Again. I had an easier time getting through the birth canal than I did zigzagging in and out of the stadium’s graveyard of a parking lot where the traffic was so brutally long and slow all four passengers in the......
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Last Night: Pearl Jam in Düsseldorf

Mark Mauer
Pearl Jam Düsseldorf, Germany, ISS Dome June 21, 2007 By Ryan Colditz The German crowd at the ISS Dome Germany was more reminiscent of a fütbol match than a rock concert, but tonight Pearl Jam was the attraction, playing the town for the first time in the 21 German appearances......
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Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

Mark Mauer
White Stripes Icky Thump/Tower Records, June 20, 2007 By Ryan Ward All photos by Timothy Norris - Click here for a slideshow of the concert If you had but one standout moment in your career, you first of all would not be The White Stripes. But their colonization of the......
Vader mask by Niagara (Photos by Mark Mauer)

Paint It Black

Mark Mauer
For 30 years Darth Vader’s shiny black helmet has symbolized cool/evil, and not many dared mess with it. But last year DKE Toys founder Dov Kelemer approached dozens of artists about using the iconic helmet as a canvas, and now an army of die-hard Star Wars fans have arrived at......
Vader mask by Niagara (Photos by Mark Mauer)

Paint It Black

Mark Mauer
For 30 years Darth Vader’s shiny black helmet has symbolized cool/evil, and not many dared mess with it. But last year DKE Toys founder Dov Kelemer approached dozens of artists about using the iconic helmet as a canvas, and now an army of die-hard Star Wars fans have arrived at......
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Echo Park Cuban Music Festival

Mark Mauer
{mosimage} Seeing the face of Che Guevara on a t-shirt in Echo Park is about as common as seeing hotdogs wrapped in bacon.  It’s downright iconic.  But seeing the revolutionary’s familiar image with a red bar running through it and the words, “Criminal ­– Murderer – Rapist, NOT A HERO”......
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No Depression for Wilco and Son Volt

Mark Mauer
{mosimage} Let’s say it at the outset: It’s totally unfair and totally unnecessary to compare the new albums from Wilco and Son Volt. Comparing Jeff Tweedy’s and Jay Farrar’s bands has been done to death, and 12 years after Uncle Tupelo’s breakup, they don’t have anything to do with each......
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Bright Eyes and Gillian Welch

Mark Mauer
BRIGHT EYES and GILLIAN WELCH at Disney Hall, May 6, 2007 “We can't hear your words!” shouted a guy in the crowd just two songs into Bright Eyes' set. “I'm sorry. I might be slurring,” Conor Oberst mumbled back. “I will try to use better diction for the rest of the......