foreign born at mercury lounge

belated cow bell reverie: foreign born at mercury lounge. shar's been dying to see them live and they finally came back to me like a weary boomerang that's lost it's way to this indie rock gal's heart. they took time off from their duties with fool's gold to jam as fb. had me a primo spot front and center facing keys extraordinaire lewis. he joked with me asking if i could see.

the boys barreled into "early warnings" and the audience bopped in unison. it was a great set, but would have been better with an encore. why not, boys? in any case, they played my other fav "vacationing people".

sal, more cow bell please

jokester lewis

matt daper and crooning

ariel

silver lake reverie

beacon of musical collab goodness: silver lake via npr. okay all the cool kids are living in silver lake. that's not a new thing, but npr is having a collision of silver lake goodness. the new local natives' album, "gorilla manor" is streaming now. enjoy below.



also, there's a great kexp sesh with fool's gold here. members of that band often frequent edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, who did a fab tiny desk concert back in november. also the dreaded time period when shar snoozed on the triple bill to see all these bands at bowery. boo on shar! this vid cheers me up everytime tho.