[Why, it’s Paula Abdul’s birthday today. Isn’t that nice …] Today: A seriously busy weekend gets started with the seriously beautiful orchestral maneuvers of Grizzly Bear, who are joined by Here We Go Magic to play a (very) sold-out show at the Wiltern. … It’s also opening night at the Hollywood Bowl, where the Bowl […]
[Birthday greetings go out today to Paul McCartney … in L.A. tonight we have something of a Brooklyn Invasion:] White Rabbits’ new album “It’s Frightening” was produced by Britt Daniel of Spoon, and the music brims with the same spare-but-urgent qualities (that’s the video for “Percussion Gun,” above). The Brooklyn-based sextet headlines the Troubadour tonight […]
[Links to previous M83 installments at bottom of this post] Chapter 4: In the back of a rental car speeding toward Paris, there are suitcases, a drum set and lots of Red Bull, which, until recently, was illegal in France. Oh, and me. We just completed rehearsal in Antibes and are trying to make Paris […]
