Cinematographer Colin Rich’s “Nightfall” – conjoined with the M83 song “Echoes of Mine” – is so spectacular I’m not even going to spend a lot of words on it. You should go here and read what Rich has to say about it. And watch in full screen. ||| Live: M83 performs Sept. 1 not far […]
M83 have been busy touring in support of their latest record “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (we’ve witnessed three of those dates since its release), but they also continue to bear gifts in the form of highly cinematic music videos. The story line for the electrifying “Reunion” picks up right where the clip for “Midnight City” […]
Who: M83 in the Mojave Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Need bigger tent.
[The Buzz Bands LA crew will be in Indio for the first weekend of the doubleheader in the desert, scribbling notes and taking photographs between predictable attacks of nostalgia, next-big-thing giddiness and dehydration. Coachella 2012 offers a mind-boggling array of current and past favorites to suit just about any palette – no whining about the […]
Our heads are spinning already … and two weeks of this to come: ‣ Madchester favorites James, with a deluxe boxed set “The Gathering Sound” (all 11 of their studio albums on USB stick, 3CDs, a DVD, vinyl and more – whew) on the way, play a pre-Coachella show at the El Rey Theatre. Elizaveta opens. […]
Not that we are looking forward to M83’s return to southern California too much, but when photographer (and long time Buzz Bands LA ally) Kristy Sparow hailed us from Paris and offered to share images of Anthony Gonzalez and crew from the band’s show at La Cigale in the French capital, we gratefully accepted. M83 […]
Didn’t score a ticket to Coachella? Plenty of the big names playing the festival are scheduling other southern California shows, including Pulp, Bon Iver, M83 (pictured), James, Kasabian, Miike Snow, Band of Skulls and Wild Flag. Downtown Lobby has a roundup, with ticket info, right here. Photo by Laurie Scavo
The music of M83 imagines a world without gravity, although certainly not without gravitas. Even in the cosmic ambience of Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez’s early work, there was an emotional intensity that tethered us to our mortal coils, as if connecting the dots between what is possible and what is palpable, and maybe suggesting we could […]
If tonight’s show list were any longer, it’d be a Phish song: ‣ New York’s Penguin Prison brings his dancey electro-pop to the Echo, supported by American Royalty. That’s Penguin Prison’s Occupy Wall Street-inspired video for “Don’t F*ck With My Money,” above. ‣ M83 and Big Black Delta do a second sold-out night at Club […]
Thursday things: ‣ M83, thunderously good at the Music Box in November, returns to L.A. for a sold-out two-date stand beginning tonight at Club Nokia. ‣ Robert Schwartzman is joined by Sleeping Bags and Emily Greene at the Satellite in part of the free “Satellite Nights” series. ‣ The Milk Carton Kids – the acoustic […]
