[I was checking out the digital Indie’s stream just now and an Editors song dropped out right in the middle, a cumbia song started playing for about 30 seconds, then the stream cut back to a Shins song …] [And LA Weekly’s blog has a statement from Steve Jones here.] Mark Sovel, aka Mr. Shovel, […]
[Second of two parts] The past few years, in the halcyon days when I toiled for the local newspaper, I wrote an annual L.A. music review, handicapping the bands I thought might, for one reason or another, have the stuff to break out of the local scene. Following are my Bands to Watch 2009 [and […]
[Singer-keyboardist-tour diarist Morgan Kibby checks in from the U.K. segment of M83’s tour; previous chapters can be found here:] Chapter 20: Not even a full 24 hours in L.A., and we were off again to England to join the Kings of Leon.” I am bummed my camera was stolen for obvious reasons, but mostly because […]
[Some Very Bad Person made off with Morgan Kibby’s digital camera at the recent Los Angeles show. So instead of her behind-the-scenes photographs, the shot below is one of our indefatigable M83 tour diarist during the show. Meanwhile, if you have any information about that camera …] Chapter 19: Ending our American tour in Los […]
[M83 keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby continues her diary as the band’s tour with School of Seven Bells wends its way toward Saturday’s date at the Music Box @ Fonda. Additionally, it was announced Tuesday that M83 will join the Killers on tour for 14 dates in January and early February. Details after the diary. Previous diaries […]
Chapter 3 Greetings from Chicago, Part I: “Every age has its own complacent failures of intelligence, and we have learned in our own time to laugh at the ‘reasonable’ point of view that was fashionable in the eighteenth century and the moral point of view of the nineteenth century, but it looks as if this […]
[Keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby resumes her tour diary as M83 embarks on the U.S. leg of its tour. Previous diaries here.] Chapter 17: The U.S tour is already over a week old, and weirdly enough I wish that I hadn’t gotten out of the rhythm of touring by going home. It’s sooooo hard to get back […]
[Catching up with Morgan Kibby’s M83 tour diary — the band has now begun the U.S. leg of its tour, which ends Nov. 29 at the Music Box @ Fonda.] Chapter 16: Last week I got to spend five days at home. In Los Angeles. In my own bed. I also enjoyed two big victories. […]
[Previous dispatches from M83’s Morgan Kibby here.] Chapter 15: Goodbye tour, hello vacation! Lotje and I are headed for Madrid one day early to have a little pre-birthday celebration (the big 26 for Lotje). We packed small backpacks, ditched the boys and hopped a plane this morning.” Lotje is planning to meet two girlfriends to […]
[Catching up with Morgan Kibby’s tour diary … Previous chapters.] Chapter 14: Dublin. Belfast. Glasgow. Manchester. How to sum these all up? Dublin: Horrible Chinese food, but fantastic crowd. Belfast: I can’t remember. I’m sure it was fantastic! Glasgow: Oh, Graham, you were the most handsome rep to cross our paths, and on top of […]
