Make Music Pasadena
Make Music Pasadena Under The Rain, Saturday June 11th 2016
The performers tried very hard to make us forget about the weather
Make Music Pasadena Announces Its 2016 Lineup
The free music festival is always a mid June big success
Nick Waterhouse At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 6th 2015 Review
He is certainly pre Beatles, and pre everything that would fit his age – he is not even 30 – but he makes you swing in his well-oiled time travelling machine as if it was 1964.
Avid Dancer At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 6th 2015 Review
Yeah, they were really hard to pigeonhole, and they get all sort of comparisons, but they probably don’t want to be pigeonhole as Summers is famous for saying he draws his influences from all over the place, and quite unintentionally, since he was raised in a strict Christian household and was forbidden to listen to any secular music until his late teens!
How To Dress Well At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 6th 2015 Review
Krell’s vocals are so eerie, so high falsetto and so emotional and violent at the same time, that he seems to bring all his guts in action.
Hundred Waters At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 6th 2015 Review
Their performance was very dreamy, very slow at first, installing a very ethereal and aching ambiance, sometimes going to more beats, but staying on the dark side of an electronic dance.
Kishi Bashi At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 6th 2015 Review
Their joyous pop was a bit hirsute and I am not especially talking about the ZZ Top look of the banjo player, but it was a total success among the crowd. There were vocal harmonies, a lot of this classical violin, operatic croon and a desire to go bombastic at each second.
Hidden Charms At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 6th 2015 Review
Their awesome vintage sound had enough of this 60’s surf-y-bluesy guitars, and frontman Vincent Davies was doing enough of that Chuck Berry walk, to make them instantaneously loveable.
Youngblood Hawke at Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 1st 2013
Their effervescent electro-pop was marvelously working on the crowd as the sextet had visibly a lot of fun in their hometown, and they managed to brighten the atmosphere already extremely sunny, with a set of 10 uplifting songs. Youngblood Hawke on stage is a really enjoyable spectacle, they constantly deploy a non-stop energy
Y La Bamba At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 16th 2012
It was a quiet lo-fi, almost intimate affair, with a delicate and soft drumming, a sweet acoustic guitar, some dance-y rhythms and often three-voice-male-female harmonies. They started with a minimalist instrumentation, and then, little by little brought more people and more instruments into play.
Grimes At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 16th 2012
I cannot say I was very impressed by her Pitchfork-proclaimed-best-new-music title, but there were so many fans pushing, trying to climb over the barricades, so many people backstage obstructing the view, so many police officers trying to contain the crazy fans that it was hard to tell.
Cults At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 16th 2012
Cults’ music has this sweet retro sound, building at each song a catchy power-pop borrowed from the Supremes or some other 60s Phil Spector’s band, with Madeline Follin’s powerful and childish vocals and a few dance groves underneath the apparent ballad style of the songs.
Grouplove At Make Music Pasadena, Saturday June 16th 2012
I was walking back and forth along the sidewalk during the first half of their performance, as the police wouldn’t let me stand still, but I managed to find a spot close to the stage later on, squeezing my way through a sea of people packed like sardines.