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Download: Spirit Animal, ‘I’m Around’
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[They Left L.A. for the Other Coast, but We Still Listen, Part I:] Steve Cooper made music in L.A. as the Gray Kid before segueing into his electro-funk project Spirit Animal. Now based in New York City, Spirit Animal’s new single “I’m Around” (premiered Thursday on Spinner) finds him collaborating with a couple of his […]

White Sea explores the horizon on ‘This Frontier’
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Whatever shape her solo music ended up taking, Morgan Kibby was determined not to play to expectations. “I’m a woman who plays keyboards, and there’s the whole Tori Amos sensibility,” says Kibby, the singer-keyboardist who joined French popgazers M83 for their last album “Saturdays = Youth.” “I know I could have written the girl-at-a-piano record, […]

Download: White Sea, ‘This Frontier’ EP
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Morgan Kibby rocketed onto the pop radar as the keyboardist/singer for M83 who co-wrote four of the songs on the French band’s 2008 album “Saturdays = Youth.” [She also very kindly contributed the first tour diary for this very blog.] With M83 on a break from touring and Anthony Gonzalez working on new music, Kibby […]

M83: Arenas, apprehension and after-parties
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[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 […]

M83: Thanks for the good times, America
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[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: Big dreams in vibrant colors at the Fonda
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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 […]

M83: Snow, shows and the power of music
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[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 […]

M83: Back in the USA, big in the Big Apple
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[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 […]

M83: Five days in L.A., and two big scores
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[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. […]

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