Run DMT, Foot Village, Sun Araw and Blissed Out at Landslide, 6/11/10

In the interest of full disclosure, these haikus are going to be admittedly less astute and critical than the typical post on this site. I was working the door for this show, thereby quashing any impartiality I could have otherwise employed in their composition. Also, from where I was sitting, I was only able to take in peripheral versions of each set. That being said, this was one of the most enchanting settings I have ever seen, and I couldn't have asked for better, sweeter, more appreciative bands with whom to spend the evening. Thanks to everyone involved in making the Landslide what it is, and without any further ado -

Run DMT

His set was drawn from
The setting, deferential
And bright, curious

Sun Araw

With every outing,
They've grown, sanguine and dauntless,
Really fucking good.

Blissed Out

The lunacy of
American pop employed
As detritus, well!

Foot Village

Modern tribal ode
To the open sky above!
We, villagers all.

Run DMT and Blissed Out at Synchronicity Space, 6/10/10

Run DMT

The mad scientist
With his future music made
Me discard the past!

Blissed Out

Like a large brass/tin
Merry-go-round softened by
Their vocal halos.

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.