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Darryl Morden

Coachella, Days 1 and 2

From an opening take-off of his Wings-era 1970s hit "Jet" to the closing "The End" by the Beatles nearly three hours later, just shy of 1 a.m., Paul McCartney took the annual Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival in Indio, Calif., to a new level Friday, crossing more generations that it ever has before.

Coachella, Day 1 and 2 at Empire Polo Field — Concert Review

From an opening take-off of his Wings-era 1970s hit "Jet" to the closing "The End" by the Beatles nearly three hours later, Paul McCartney took the annual Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival to a new level.

Concert Review: John Legend

It looked like couples night for John Legend's concert Tuesday at the Gibson, and why not? The R&B singer-songwriter is, most of all, a grand romantic.

Concert Review: KROQ Christmas, Night 2

Sunday's epic moment during the second night of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas belonged to the second-billed Killers.

MISSING HEADLINE

Fans of Southern Cal modern-rock giant KROQ received two early holiday presents during Saturday's first night of the station's annual two-day Almost Acoustic Christmas musical smorgasbord, as a reunited Stone Temple Pilots and headlining punk veterans the Offspring delivered crowd-pleasing, chock-full-o'favorites sets.

Concert Review: KROQ Christmas, Night 1

Fans of Southern Cal modern-rock giant KROQ received two early holiday presents during Saturday's first night of the station's annual two-day Almost Acoustic Christmas musical smorgasbord, as a reunited Stone Temple Pilots and headlining punk veterans the Offspring delivered crowd-pleasing, chock-full-o'favorites sets.

Concert Review: Tina Turner

Turner is the Queen of Rock -- from gritty, from-the-gut punches to over-the-top Vegas spectacle. Coming up on her 69th birthday, her voice boomed and rattled Monday at Staples Center.

Music Reviews

Turner is the Queen of Rock -- from gritty, from-the-gut punches to over-the-top Vegas spectacle. Coming up on her 69th birthday, her voice boomed and rattled Monday at Staples Center.

The Swell Season

Most artists would save their best-known song — an Oscar-winning song, yet — for the end of a show or an encore. But not the Swell Season's Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.

Concert Review: Neil Diamond

The first of two dates at the much larger Bowl was more like "warm October night" as the 67-year-old pop music icon delivered a career-spanning two-hour concert that showed why he's been an enduring entertainer and skilled songwriter for more than four decades.

Music Reviews

The first of two dates at the much larger Bowl was more like "warm October night" as the 67-year-old pop music icon delivered a career-spanning two-hour concert that showed why he's been an enduring entertainer and skilled songwriter for more than four decades.

Concert review: Kid Rock

Kid Rock's show at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City was a multigenre blitz: thunderous rap-rock, Southern rock, classic rock, country music and old school hip-hop.