One might have believed a New Year’s Eve celebration was happening, what with all the balloons, confetti, and streams of toilet paper showering over the dancing, glow necklace-wearing masses. But no, it was just a Thursday night at OC’s The Observatory as it played host to mash-up artist Girl Talk (aka Gregg Michael Gillis). Real [...]

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photography by lindsey best

Girl Talk performing at the Fox Theatre in Pomona, CA on July 24, 2009.

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Watching X and My Bloody Valentine put into perspective all these kids making noisy pop music by recalling the rich and fabled genealogy of this newfangled uprising and putting a sincere (albeit wrinkled) face on sounds that were once something controversial and that today’s babies take for granted… it must be oddly pleasant to play a show you never would’ve been asked to play in your own heyday, knowing that tropes you helped invent are propelling smooth-skinned foals into stardom from what middle-aged critics are carelessly referring to as the “outside” or the “fringes” while you wonder where the hell that leaves you?

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Although we have yet to toy around with the Coachooser, we present here (via Goldenvoice and Coachella) the set times for this weekend:

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