Ryan Muir

Emily Haines, lead singer and synth player for Metric, gave a special girl power shoutout on Sunday … to her Pro-One keyboard. “The Pro-One is one of those instruments, they’re like a woman…

The foursome’s reunion for Coachella (they were a late add to the lineup) was largely unheralded, except by a few passionate fans who were keenly tuned into the band’s recipe of guitar riffs and effects…

Mr. Malkmus’s old band, Pavement, is one of the few remaining first-tier holdouts not to reconvene for Coachella. The quieter reunions this year were those of Swervedriver and Love and Rockets; the more significant one was Portishead, reunited after 10 years, which played a mesmerizing set on Saturday…

As spindly and diminutive is Annie Clark, the frontwoman for St. Vincent more than filled out the Gobi tent as her band propelled her twee pop through a vibrant…

Roger Waters played two sets, flying pig incident included, to close out the main stage of Coachella 2008 on Sunday. But first ….One of the summer’s most-heralded live act, My Morning Jacket, treated fans on Coachella’s main stage to a surprise early in their set by br…

the pig, pre-escape (more by Ryan Muir) Anonymous wasn’t kidding! As you can see in the video at the end of this post, Roger Waters’ pig got loose at Coachella on Sunday – it just zig zagged away, never…

Roger Waters headlined the main stage of Coachella on Sunday Perfected after a week of rehearsals at the Forum arena in Los Angeles, all of it was matched with the sort of special effects and spectacular images Waters and Pink Floyd are known, like the giant inflatable pig covered in graffiti (“Don’t be led to slaughter”) that floated above the crowd during “Sheep” to explosive sparks of electric guitar by Dave Kilminster before being allowed to break free as spotlights crisscrossed the sky…

A rising Denver band, DeVotchKa, walked off the stage before the end of its performance Saturday at the Coachella music festival in Southern California, one of the nation’s largest independent music festivals…

Etta James played three NYC shows earlier this month. Ryan stopped by to take some pictures at the last one. He and everyone I asked about the shows said something like, “girl can sing…