Page 5 – Los Angeles Coliseum

Mexico vs. Nigeria Game Announced for 7.3.21

Posted on May 17, 2021May 18, 2021 by cesarrod

This summer the MEXTOUR is coming to the LA Coliseum! The Mexican National Team will battle Nigeria on Saturday, July 3 at 7:30 p.m. PT, at the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (LA Coliseum). This will be the fourth date of the 2021 MexTour this summer, joining Dallas, Atlanta, and Nashville on tour ahead of the region’s top national team competition, the Concacaf Gold Cup, which begins July 10. The Los Angeles match is being staged in partnership with Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC).

Tickets for the LA match will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 27, at 10 a.m. local time through www.MexTour.com. Seats are already on sale for the other MexTour matches. Fans in attendance will be required to adhere to all MexTour, stadium, and local health guidelines. MexTour fans can book their hotel accommodations to the match through the official MexTour hotel link, https://hotels.mextour.org/.

UPROAR Hip-Hop Festival

Posted on May 4, 2021May 19, 2021 by cesarrod

UPROAR is a hip-hop music festival that celebrates culture and community through live performances, dance teams, interactive experiences, art, food, and beverage. UPROAR will debut with feature Lil Wayne, Young Money and Friends on August 13th at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Uproar Fest will adhere to all state, county, and city public health guidelines regarding COVID-19 safety protocols, the venue may shift seating configurations and adjust capacity.

Cannabis will not be allowed to be sold, distributed, or sampled during the Uproar Festival. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is a non-smoking venue.

Bad Bunny Music Video Shot at the LA Coliseum

Posted on December 1, 2020February 8, 2023 by cesarrod

Bad Bunny, two-time Latin Grammy Award winner, four-time Billboard Music Award winner, dropped “Yo Visto Asi” last week, a star-studded music video with a huge finale. Featuring big names like Ricky Martin, Sofia Vergara, and Karol G, the video closes out with a massive motorcycle cage stunt set-up and fireworks on the Coliseum’s field. The track comes from the Grammy nominee’s new album, El Último Tour Del Mundo.

The Grammy-nominated rapper also earned the honor of being named the most streamed artist in 2020 by Spotify. Now that’s colossal.

Peristyle Fashion: Thom Browne

Posted on October 23, 2020October 28, 2020 by cesarrod

Thom Browne Spring Collection
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Designer Thom Browne debuted his 2021 Spring collection with an Olympic-themed film shot at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Imagined as a futuristic Olympic runway, the monochromatic collection was showcased on the iconic Coliseum stairway, with the Peristyle as the backdrop. A humorous film of the fashion show starring comedian Jordan Firstman can be viewed below:

Thom Browne Spring Collection

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USC Re-Revised 2020 Football Schedule

Posted on October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 by Kevin Daly

USC opens its 2020 slate at home on Nov. 7 against Arizona State, with kickoff at 9 a.m. PT on FOX. FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff pregame show, featuring Trojan legends Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush along with Brady Quinn, Urban Meyer and host Rob Stone, will be broadcast live from the Coliseum starting at 7 a.m. PT.

It is the earliest kickoff time for a Trojan home game since at least the early 1950s when complete records are available (a home contest against Loyola in the 1891 season began at 9:30 a.m.), as well as USC’s first pre-noon kickoff since an 11 a.m. home start against Utah State in 2016. It also marks the latest date that USC has started a season since 1918, when the Trojans opened against Stanford on Nov. 23 because public gatherings in Los Angeles were banned in October due to the Spanish flu. And it is the 10th consecutive year that USC plays the Pac-12’s first conference game of the year.

After its ASU contest, USC goes to Arizona on Nov. 14 (USC’s latest road opener since 1918, when it played at Whittier Reform on Nov. 30).

The Trojans remain on the road to visit defending Pac-12 South champion Utah on Nov. 21, then they host Colorado in the Coliseum on Nov. 28 of Thanksgiving weekend.

USC stays in the Coliseum for its North Division crossover game against Washington State in a Friday night contest on Dec. 4 (the teams did not meet in 2019). It will be USC’s 14th Friday game since 1990.

Troy then plays crosstown rival UCLA in the Rose Bowl on Dec. 12, tying the latest date that the teams have met (also in 1942).

All Pac-12 teams will play a to-be-announced Championship Week opponent on the regular season’s final weekend, with the 2020 Pac-12 Championship Game against the North and South Division champions on FOX at 5 p.m. PT on Dec. 18 in a home-hosted format and the league’s other teams playing on Dec. 19, with hosts to be determined. This is the latest finish to USC’s regular season since 1946, when the Trojans concluded against Tulane on Dec. 21.

Game times and television plans for USC’s other 2020 games will be announced later. All games will be nationally televised by either the ESPN channels, ABC, FOX, FOX Sports 1 or Pac-12 Networks.

Fans will not be allowed at any Pac-12 sports competitions until at least 2021, the league announced recently.

This is the fewest regular season games USC has played since 1920, when the Trojans went 6-0. This is USC’s fewest home games in a season since playing 2 in 1910 (if Troy hosts a fourth home contest on the last weekend of this regular season, it would be its fewest since also hosting 4 in 1918).

This also is the first time ever that USC plays a regular-season schedule composed only of conference opponents. The last time that USC opened its season against a conference opponent was in 1994 versus Washington.

USC’s original 2020 schedule was comprised of 12 games that included 3 non-conference foes (Alabama, New Mexico, Notre Dame) in addition to 9 league opponents (all but Washington State and Oregon State), with a Sept. 5 opener. In late July, the schedule was revised and shortened to 10 games versus conference-only opponents (kicking off on Sept. 26) to better deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Several weeks later, however, the Pac-12 postponed sports competitions until 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns. In late September, the league resumed the football, basketball and winter sports seasons based upon updated Pac-12 COVID-19 Medical Advisory Committee recommendations that took into account changes to testing capabilities, the prevalence of COVID-19 and cardiac issues and updated state and local health official guidance, with the health and safety of the student-athletes and those connected to Pac-12 sports as the number one priority.

This is the first interruption since 1943-44-45 in the historic intersectional series between USC and Notre Dame. This also is the first time since 1914 that USC has not played at least California or Stanford in a season.

2020 USC FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Nov. 7 – Arizona State, 9 a.m., FOX
Nov. 14 – at Arizona
Nov. 21 – at Utah
Nov. 28 – Colorado
Dec. 4 (Fri.) – Washington State
Dec. 12 – at UCLA
Dec. 18/19 – TBA, Pac-12 Championship Week

NFL and Alicia Keys shoot Kick-off Video at the Coliseum

Posted on September 15, 2020September 23, 2020 by cesarrod

Alicia Keys chose the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the stage to perform an anthem of liberation, strength, perseverance and faith to a worldwide NFL audience. Home to two Super Bowls (1967 and 1973), two Olympics (1932 and 1984), and a third Olympics to occur in 2028, the worldwide spotlight was once again cast on Coliseum for Keys’ performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Keys’ mid-field piano performance was broadcast prior to the “NFL Kickoff Game” on the NFL Network, Sunday Night Football on NBC, and Monday Night Football on ESPN.

In a special behind-the-scenes video, the fifteen-time Grammy winner reflected “With all the people that were here with me today, we filled this stadium with love, with possibility, with endlessness, with power, strength, and music.”

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Billboard – Coverage of Partnership with NFL, ROC Nation and Alicia Keys

50 on 50 presents intimate performances in a stadium setting

Posted on August 18, 2020September 14, 2020 by cesarrod

50on50, a cutting-edge music offering from the LA Coliseum, brings you intimate performances in an iconic stadium setting.

Our first 50on50 performance features indie singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers performing “ICU” and “Halloween” from her sophomore album, Punisher. These songs were shot in front of a small audience in early March and premiered on August 18, 2020.

The performance has been covered by multiple outlets, including:

See the full videos below:

Stay tuned for new music, intimate performances in an iconic setting. This is 50 on 50.

Coliseum Named ENR 2020 Best Renovation/Restoration South Project

Posted on July 30, 2020July 31, 2020 by cesarrod

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is honored to be named the ENR (Engineering News Record) 2020 Best Renovation/Restoration South project winner. We are grateful for the acknowledgment and credit our success to the wonderful team at AECOM/Hunt.

From top to bottom, the Coliseum’s renovation modernized the historic building, adding Wi-Fi, new seating with cup-holders, new concession areas and the Scholarship Tower with luxury suites, the 1923 Rooftop Deck and multiple private event spaces.

Phoebe Bridgers Music Video Shot at the Coliseum

Posted on July 29, 2020August 12, 2020 by cesarrod

Phoebe Bridgers’s new music video “I Know the End” was shot at the LA Coliseum, with scenes on the field, the Memorial Court of Honor, and the locker room. The track comes from her sophomore album, Punisher.

Directed by Alissa Torvinen, the video plays with melancholy imagery juxtaposed with the stadium’s larger-than-life setting. You can read more about Phoebe Bridgers’ virtual tour around the world in Pollstar.