More from Darryl Morden
Carrie Underwood — Concert Review
As a live performer and artist, thrust perhaps too early by career momentum into arenas and such, Carrie Underwood still has a ways to go.
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Muse — Concert Review
With U2 on tour hiatus until 2011, no other group looks more poised to take over its biggest-band-in-the-world status than Muse, and the British trio proved its mettle with a mighty performance Saturday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Lady Gaga — Concert Review
The show actually began outside Staples Center as skyrocketing star Lady Gaga brought her Monster Ball tour to downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday for the first of two sold-out nights.
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MGMT — Concert Review
Summer's here, and the time is right for dancing -- or at least bouncing up and down a lot -- at the Greek. That's the way it was for the latter part of a headlining appearance Friday in Los Angeles by MGMT.
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Coachella, Day 3 — Concert Review
The 11th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in didn't exactly go out with a roar at its longtime home of the Empire Polo Club, but it certainly ended with performances playful and reaching by Gorillaz and Thom Yorke along with the welcome return of indie-rock heroes Pavement.
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Coachella, Days 1-2 — Concert Review
After a slow start owing to traffic backups, the 11th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was in full swing by late afternoon Friday and back to its happiest-musical-place on-Earth status Saturday.
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Depeche Mode — Concert Review
Depeche Mode transforms solace and introspection into a communal concert experience with their very devoted and now cross-generational fans. That's the veteran British band's greatest gift, and Sunday's first of two sold-out historic Hollywood Bowl performances lived up to their legendary status.
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Beyonce — Concert Review
Beyonce recently topped Forbes' list of the richest stars under 30, but she clearly is not hoarding the money: A ton of it must have been spent on her latest spectacle of a tour.
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Wilco at the Wiltern — Concert Review
Wilco is something of a cult band: no hit singles, no massive record sales. But the group has garnered a devoted following through albums that have ranged from straight-ahead singer-songwriter Americana to more ethereal explorations of emotional tone and mood.
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KIIS Wango Tango
Unlike such music festivals as Coachella and Bonnaroo — or, for that matter, the traveling Warped tour — radio-station concerts are self-congratulatory, short-set samplers of current hitmakers, with actual artistry rare. KIIS-FM's Wango Tango is no exception, though Kelly Clarkson managed to shine through a barrage of hype Saturday at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, Calif.
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KIIS Wango Tango at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater — Concert Review
Unlike such music festivals as Coachella and Bonnaroo -- or, for that matter, the traveling Warped tour -- radio-station concerts are self-congratulatory, short-set samplers of current hitmakers, with actual artistry rare. KIIS-FM's Wango Tango is no exception.
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Coachella, Day 3 at Empire Polo Field — Concert Review
Coachella magic was at work most of Sunday's closing date of the three-day festival in the Southern California, from the hot-rockin' Gaslight Anthem out of New Jersey to headliner, celebrated Britrock mood icons the Cure, playing until the plug was pulled just shy of 1 a.m.
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