Nothing quite like a (nother) sold out show to end the residency. Check out a few sweet pics, with more to come once our photog rests up a bit. Thanks EV!
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Its been a few years since Marc has ben back on the Roxy stage, and while he has a few more albums under his belt - he still has the classic, New Orleans, jazz-y feel that we’ve all loved for years! Vocally, it doesn’t get much better than this - so make sure you pick up your tickets ASAP, as they’re getting very very sparce! See you at the show- and make sure to come early and catch MATT HIRES! As always, click here for tix or give us a ring at 310 278 9457!
Live At The Roxy
Some of the most delicious reggae this side of the Pacific - we are excited to welcome the B-Side Players back to Hollywood. Reggae is so hot right now - and it seems like we’ve rocked it a lot lately (with newbies Rebelution, Iration, Soja…) but B-Side Players have been showing us Roxy love for years! Love ‘em! This is some old school reggae at its finest! Call us for tix - 310 278 9457 or click here!
Live At The Roxy
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March was a big month here at The Roxy. We had a lot of great shows but these were among our favorites. Rooney, Billy Boy on Poison, Young Dubliners, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Switches, John West and Matthew Santos, The Vacation, The Mooney Suzuki, AJ MCLEAN, Presidents of the United States of America, Kaki King, Candlebox, Dolly Parton and The Expendables all kept us wanting more. A lot of you have been taking some great pictures so we thought we would share them with the world. If you have pictures taken at The Roxy and want to share them too, add them to our new public Flickr group called, appropriately, The Roxy Theatre. Also, for the lastest photos from our in-house photographers, you can check out the “Live at The Roxy” set on The Roxy’s Flickr page for more. Here’s a taste of what was captured in March.
Dolly Parton
Candlebox
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If you’ve seen some of our past blogs….you’ll know we’re pretty huge fans of crazy fandom - and as we rolled into work this fine Monday morning, we were very excited to see some very enthusiastic fans camped outside. I especially loved the air mattress. For all you fans that aren’t able to check out the show tonight…what are some of your favorite Backstreet Boys memories? Are you excited for AJ’s solo stuff?
And lucky for us, as I ran outside to take some pictures…ran into AJ himself showing the fans some love- check it out!
Best known for his role in one of the most beloved boybands of the 90’s - we can’t even tell you how excited we are to have Backstreet Boy AJ MCLEAN here next MONDAY MARCH 24th. Their are still a few tickets left which can be purchased thru ticketmaster and thru the Roxy box office…and JUST added are local favs Everybody Else and Blackcowboy! Check out AJ debuting his new single (a jazz, funk, soul type feel) tonight (March 21, 2008) on LA station 102.7 KIIS FM on Jojo’s Top 9 at 9. Check it out!
Just wanted to take a second and say a BIG congratulations to Ms Amy Winehouse for all her wins at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards last night! Her album really was one of the best of the year…and as soon as she played the Roxy stage we KNEW she was going to be a star!
RECORD OF THE YEAR
SONG OF THE YEAR
NEW ARTIST
POP VOCAL ALBUM
FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Check out Amy below at the Roxy !
We love artists with a cause, so Keke Wyatt - and her support for the Save a Music Foundation - is already cool in our book. Making waves with her second album, we are excited to have her on our stage for the first time. Having already worked with musical heavy hitters like Randy Jackson and an early version of Destiny’s Child - we can tell she’s up for the challenge! Tickets can be found on ticketmaster as well as thru our box office.
Check out …MY FIRST LOVEE
With the distinct style of music that combines elements of funk, soul, and blues - we could not be more excited to have Nikka back on our stage! Tickets will go onsale tomorrow 11/29-thru both ticketmaster and our box office (310 278 9457). Don’t miss out!
So, as if the Last Annual Gimme Shelter Benefit wasn’t already the hottest bill - it somehow keeps getting better! We already have our dear Heko’s favorite accounted for- in the boys of Phantom Planet, and our very own Megan Jacobs is ready to rock - and now, I am very happy to announce that MY personal favorite, Mandy Moore has just been added. So, grab your tickets, because they are getting sparse. It will definitely be a night to remember!
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this is from the LA Weekly…
U.K. soul mama gets crowned on the Sunset Strip Monday, March 19, at the Roxy
By Ernest Hardy
Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:00 pmMonday, March 19, at the Roxy
Performing to a sold-out Roxy, Amy Winehouse gave a hilarious intro to the confessional song “You Know I’m No Goodâ€: After she had betrayed a lover, he asked if she even loved him. “I told him, ‘I do love you,’ †she recounted — adding with playful exasperation, “ ‘But, like, I get bored. I told you I’m no good!’ †The crowd loved it — and sang every song by heart, all night long.
Winehouse’s top-to-bottom brilliant sophomore album, Back to Black (Republic/Universal), is bursting with great, quotable lines, many as wry as they are poignant. One of the best is tucked in the driving, Motown-based “Tears Dry on Their Own,†where she admits: “Even if I stop wanting you/and perspective pushes through/I’ll be some next man’s other woman soon…â€
The word other is key here. That’s the woman who wears the scarlet letter — fallen, disgraced. Winehouse casually conveys volumes through a single word or phrasing choice throughout Black, a breakup album whose defining characteristic is working-class feminine wit. And I mean both types of wit — intelligence and humor, which Winehouse uses intuitively to express how obsession dovetails with addiction. References to booze and boozing, drugging and fucking-as-self-destruction crowd the text of this confessional album. The musical filter through which Winehouse pours it all is the girl-group sound of the early ’60s — the Shangri-Las, the Shirelles, the Ronettes and the Chiffons.
Live, Winehouse was noticeably nervous but utterly charming, singing for an audience who knew all the words to all the songs. She was in spectacular voice throughout, backed by a crack band (man, that horn section . . .) and two chicly attired male backup singers who energetically pulled off synchronized choreography. Winehouse’s own herky-jerky, off-the-beat dancing and ragged emulation of girl-group style somehow underscored an aura of sincerity (a matted beehive with an unkempt tail; an ill-fitting dress that kept sliding down her scary-thin frame; weathered leopard-print shoes rummaged from the back of some tranny’s closet). Her awkward performance of femininity befits a woman who can’t quite figure how to stop fucking up her relationships and her life.
To read the rest of the review check the LA Weekly
snaged this from perezhilton.com - thanks perez for the post!
Amy Winehouse is such a hot mess!
She is the stuff of legend, and on Monday night a who’s who of hipsters and Hollywood players were treated to a tour de force performance by the Rehab chanteuse.
You never know if Wino is gonna show up to a gig or if she’ll even make it through a show, but she more than held her own at The Roxy.
Unfortunately, fans expecting to see her at Spaceland in Silverlake tonight might be a tad disappointed. We hear she might be cancelling!
Why? Because the venue is too small and they won’t allow her 10+ person band to come with her.
Hopefully that will all get sorted out, but if it doesn’t…..well, that’s Amy Winehouse for ya!
To sing the blues you must live the blues. And she lives it.
To see the rest of the review check out more on perezhilton.com
