Looks like a video to me, anyway, but Tori Amos is calling this a “visualette.” The deluxe edition of Amos’ new album, “Abnormally Attracted to Sin” (due Tuesday), has a DVD of visualettes videos that, according to the press release, are “interlocking episodic films bring to life the narrative arc of the album.” This episode […]
[Happy birthday to Chris Tomson of Vampire Weekend …] Tonight: I think I’ve made this a monthly ritual: First Fridays at the Natural History Museum [pictured: Michael Stock DJing “in the wilds” last month]. Tonight’s fare includes talks by experts on Charles Darwin; then you can check on the evolution of music by Fool’s Gold […]
[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 200-plus shows later, here are my favorite sets of 2008, counting down from No. 10 to No. 1 . You have a favorite? Tell me about it in the comments …] 10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jan. 25, Safari Sam’s: Probably my fondest memory of Safari Sam’s, the east Hollywood club whose lowlights exceeded […]
The Top 10 1. M83, Saturdays=Youth” (Mute) 2. The Whigs, “Mission Control” (ATO) 3. The Futureheads, “This Is Not the World” (Nul Records) 4. Friendly Fires, “Friendly Fires” (Beggars/XL) 5. Cut Copy, “In Ghost Colours” (Modular) 6. Portishead, “Third” (Island) 7. MGMT, “Oracular Spectacular” (Columbia) 8. Mercury Rev, “Snowflake Midnight” (Yep Roc) 9. The Duke […]
[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 […]
Where M83 transported you Saturday night largely depended on where you started. If you’re a child of the ’80s, Anthony Gonzalez and crew had you right where they wanted you — blithely sliding on a sheen of muscular synth back to the pre-Ritalin days of “The Breakfast Club,” that era before cynicism put a lid […]
Talk about your head trips. “Alpinisms,” the debut album released last month by School of Seven Bells, sounds almost as if it was written by algorithm, its precise latticework of electronics, guitar and vocals somehow forming music that is stark, visceral and downright hallucinatory. It’s work that was fermented in the studio for several years, […]
[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 […]
[From the clipboard of an Interweb sieve:] ‣ This almost qualifies as a brazen theft: An upright bass belonging to Mike Ibarra of the local music collective Killsonic was stolen from his van in downtown L.A. about 2 a.m. Nov. 16. There’s a benefit to help replace the instrument at 8 p.m. Saturday at Edgar […]
