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Holograms

This is a non-story. Troupes of holograms will not be gracing the stages of amphitheatres, it was a one time stunt, which paid dividends for Snoop and Dre, expect it to be trotted out to diminishing returns in the future, like 3-D movies, but if you think holograms are where live entertainment is going, you […]

Electronic

That’s not music! You were wrong on rap, are you gonna be left out of the loop one more time? Don’t be like Geffen Records, which famously thought rap was a fad and then went out of business (the label with that name today is a contractual obligation, it resembles not a whit the Aerosmith/Guns […]

Bon Iver At Coachella

I thought I was going to be crushed at the David Guetta show. And I wasn’t even in the tent. Happened to me once before, decades back, at a Chambers Brothers show in Boston Common. My feet left the ground, I was being held up by bodies, somehow I squirmed my way to the right […]

Swedish House Mafia At Coachella

The revolution wasn’t televised, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, electronic dance music RULES! So I’m standing in the Mojave tent watching Dawes and Lisa comes up, leans in my ear, and says "YOU’VE GOT TO SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE NEXT TENT OVER, YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT." Yes, there are five stages at […]