School of Seven Bells with Sister Crayon at the Echo, 6/2/10

Sister Crayon

Maybe the xx
Or the Dirty Projectors
Are to blame for this

School of Seven Bells

I admire their
Committed, confident sound
But craved divergence

First Aid Kit at the Bootleg Theater, 6/1/10

Most lovable band
In the history of the
World, without question.

Bottled Smoke Festival at the Echo Curio and Synchronicity Space (Day 2), 5/30/10

Sun Araw

Their well-placed fragments
An aural kaleidoscope
With a crunch to close.

Warm Climate

A dragon tail voice
Whipping confidently through
Tight, intrepid tracks

Sasqrotch

Bleak and woebegone
Lugubrious set not sans
More pensive moments

Obscurer

A collective "Om"
To send the night off into
Oblivion right

Bottled Smoke Festival at The Echo Curio and Synchronicity Space (Day 1), 5/29/10

M. Geddes Gengras

Metallic water-

Color, an hypnotic sketch

Of a fire within

Dreamcolour

They had me at the

Recreation of a light-

House in mourning's moan.

Barn Owl

The night sky flattened

Into sheet metal, then shaped

Into a steel drum.

Faraday Trippers

A paranormal

Wizardry, awe-inspiring

To behold, to hear.

Tom Carter

A solar flare gun, which

He wielded as though it were

A mortal guitar

Spectrum at Spaceland, 5/27/10

A special breed of

Magic alternates two notes

So enchantingly

Robedoor at Synchronicity Space, 5/21/10

Airier yet more

Momentous, like wild eagles

Morphed from elephants.

LA Font at Synchronicity Space, 5/14/10

Photo Credit: D. Greenwald

A rockabilly
Wolf parade in Bieber clothes,
with transcendent sparks!

Sun Araw with The Fuck Buttons at the Troubadour, 5/11/10

Sun Araw

Blooming rain forest:
Sumptuously lush guitars
And a bluesman's bark

Fuck Buttons

LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD
LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD
LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD SHIT.

Bell Gardens and Eluvium at The Bootleg Theater, 5/5/10

Bell Gardens

A miniaturized
Symphony, but not without
Jangly rock swagger.

Eluvium

The ghost of Glenn Gould
Caressed his keys as we sat,
Mouths agape, spellbound.

Shearwater with Wye Oak at Spaceland, 4/24/10

Wye Oak

With a voice so text-
Book beautiful, her earthly charm
Befriended my ears.

Shearwater

Justin's fearlessness
And Thor's creativity
Sliced stereotypes