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Timothy Norris checks out the Viper Room on a Thursday Night. Lady Tigra, Wallpaper and Buddy Akai perform.

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Above: Avenged Sevenfold

Above and below: Paramore cracks it open!

Above and below: Serj Tankian

Rise Against rocked it! Gave props to Naked Raygun Show.

Below: Avenged Sevenfold

Below: Bad Religion

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Fans started lining up early to get to their seats! Some arrived at 5. Skaters stopped in to check out the chicks. And lots of limos. Group of girls made the trek from the O.C. with their parents (all six of them) for the show.

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Feist, with Spoon
At the Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12
By Sophia Kercher

A few years back among hundreds of urbanite Canucks, I stumbled upon Leslie Feist illuminating the night at an intimate Canada Day celebration in Toronto. Now a top-of-the-charts razzle-dazzler, Feist established Monday that even among thousands at a dual theme-park/concert venue with a sign that reads, “All You Can Eat, Adults 19.95,” she can engage a crowd with electric wonder. The zippy sets, complemented by flashes of color and floral silhouettes, displayed Feist as a wiry, larger-than-life sprite.

“What did you say?” my bud asked midshow, not hearing my enthusiastic mumble. I announced it louder, with Feist-like up and down octaves: a satisfactory “MmmmMMM.” Maybe because we think of Feist as more of a songstress, or we’ve heard one too many of her catchy tunes on Verizon commercials, it’s easy to forget that Feist is both a dynamic guitarist and a pianist too. The girl rocks it, and her range of tunings is, like, whoa.

Austin-based Spoon warmed up, feeding the audience a wimpy salad of standstill jams that paled when compared to Feist’s savory feast. Spoon singer Britt Daniel’s voice doesn’t fill a large venue as Feist’s shimmy-shinny vocal style does. But Feist was up to the task. Despite her, at one point, describing the amphitheater as “unsizable,” Feist totally satisfied the audience’s appetite — without overstuffing it.
—Sophia Kercher

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With Under the Blacklight , their first major label album out in August, the L.A. band played a sold out show Monday night at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Timothy Norris was there to shoot the shindig. Click here for more photos.

The Bird and the Bee, Greg Kurstin and Inara George, opened the show.

All photos by Timothy Norris. Click here to see the entire set.

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With only two shows in the US currently slated around the release of her new album, White Chalk, PJ Harvey's concert at the Oprheum downtown had even more of a special-event vibe than her concerts usually have.
Photos by Aimée Candelaria

Photos by Aimée Candelaria

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Some excellent Timothy Norris photos that didn't get put up a few days ago when they should have been: Editors Live at the Wiltern September 24 with Biffy Clyro and Ra Ra Riot

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A little rain fell, but no damage done. Air, whose new one, Pocket Symphony, is their best in a while, played the usually dry Greek Theatre along with Norway's Sondre Lerche and L.A.'s own Sea Wolf. Timothy Norris was there.

Air - All photos by Timothy Norris. Click here for more.

Sea Wolf

Sondre Lerche

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Smashing Pumpkins
SDSU Open Air Theatre, Sept. 19
By Carlie Armstrong

As far as southern California nights go, Wednesday night was alarmingly chilly. However, inside the Open Air Theatre, (though technically still outside) the climate was hot and heavy with the dripping excitement of a sold-out crowd. Hellride, a three-piece band containing former Jane’s Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, lead singer/Minutemen retiree Mike Watt, and renowned guitarist Pete Distefano opened the soon-to-be orgasmic show with a mediocre round of too much distortion and some semi-hokey yelling.


(Photos by Carlie Armstrong.)

Once Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlain, and their new-found Pumpkin additions Ginger Reyes, Jeff Schroeder, and Lisa Harriton stalked on the stage, clad to the nines in full white, there was a complete mood-shift in the audience. Besides the amphitheater had swelled to bursting with its sold-out audience, the excitement circulating the place was starting to boil over into all-out screaming, groping, and feverish sighing.

The Pumpkins are a rare and bonafide act - that's obvious. Their show was musically and audibly without flaw. Everything was synchronized; the pristine outfits, the lights, the heavy guitar swings and tone distortions. Even the setlist was perfect, a concoction of new and old, with Billy setting a boundary lightly between them by proclaiming which happened where, and treating everyone to an acoustic performance of 1979. Other songs which were flawlessly performed during the two and a half hour show included: "Tarantula" (the single from their new album, Zeitgeist), "Ava Adore," "Muzzle," "Doomsday Clock," "United States," "Disarm," "Siamese Dream," and "Perfect."

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Canadian indie rockers Wolf Parade and Holy Fuck played a sold-out show at the El Rey Thursday night. Timothy Norris was there and shot it.

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Wired Magazine brings a bunch of futuristic goodies to the Henry Fonda Theater to entertain the folks between sets by Kool Keith and Spoon.

Click here to see a gallery of shots from the concert by Timothy Norris.

Photos by Timothy Norris.

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Photos of Gogol Bordello at the Henry Fonda Theater.

Photos of Wilco at the Greek Theater

Photos by Timothy Norris

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Public Enemy, EPMD, Mos Def, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan and a reunited Rage Against the Machine played in San Bernadino over the weekend. Timothy Norris was there and took loads of pictures.

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Roving photographer Timothy Norris was in Chicago for Lollapalooza - the non-traveling festival now firmly anchored in the Midwest.

M.I.A. (above), Modest Mouse, Daft Punk, Pearl Jam, !!!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Satellite Party and dozens more played over three days. Click here for shots from Friday and here for Saturday and Sunday's bands.

First, however, Tim did go to a Cubs game:

All photos by Timothy Norris

Some more Wrigley Field shots after the jump, for no particular reason, except that they look cool.

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If you missed Peter Bjorn & John's sold out show last night, worry not. They'll be returning to the Wiltern Monday, Sept. 17th with the Clientele. Click here or the image below to see Timothy Norris' photos from the concert, including opener Cass McCombs.

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Above: Monsters Are Waiting's lead creature, Annalee. The Oohlas also played the sold out concert. Click the link to see Timothy Norris' full slideshow of pictures from the evening.

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The Birmingham band played a short, sweet set on the outside stage for the Kimmel show. Click here to see all of Timothy Norris' photos. The Editors return to LA on September 24 for a concert at the Wiltern.

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The Cobrasnake was at the Daft Punk show at the Sports Arena on Saturday, July 21.

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L.A.'s hardcore band Strife haven't put out a record or played live for several years now, but you wouldn't have known it from their Saturay night show at the Roxy.

Timothy Norris was there. Click here for more photos from Strife's comeback show on the Strip.

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