Broken Bells Return to Los Angeles

The Broken Bells have just announced a few more domestic dates in March and make a much anticipated return to Los Angeles after their debut performance at The Bootleg Theater last week.Tix to their March 14th date at The Troubadour go on sale at 1pm PST. Their NY show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on the 10th of March has already sold out so you can expect the LA show to sell out in the time it takes you to watch an episode of What's Happening!! Speaking of which, I've been getting a lot of requests to provide private links to share the videos i took from their debut performance, which were removed from Youtube at the request of their label Sony. I WILL NOT SHARE any of these videos and the reason can be found in a very special episode/Rerun of What's Happening!!! feat. live performance from The Doobie Brothers. See video below, referred by EJL.



If you're not able to score tix out here they will have a couple dates in Europe next week and then will be heading over to Austin, TX for SXSW after their LA performance....and don't underestimate the possibility of a Coachella addition in April. Their debut album comes out on the 9th of March. "Vaporize" and "The High Road" are now available for a free download with every preorder!

UPDATE - Bootleg videos from the Broken Bells Debut - UPDATE

Reason #5,672 on why I religiously listen to KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic:

- You can hear Jason Bentley break secrets on the debut performance from Broken Bells, the highly anticipated collaboration between Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) and James Mercer (The Shins)....

... And therefore, I was able to procure a handful of tix to the sought-after showcase at LA's best new venue, The Bootleg Theater of the FOLD Booking group. Tix were sold out less than an hour after the announcement last Friday morning. The response to a few floating singles on the internet has been more than complimentary and apparently that was only the tip of the iceberg as James Mercer seemed befuddled when hearing the crowd sing lyrics to music that's never been performed to the public. They played the entire self-titled effort live in sequence and then a curtain call from the insatiable fans brought the James and Brian back for an encore including a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and then the rest of their full 6-piece setup for the grand finale, a cover of the 60's hit by Tommy James & the Shondells, "Crimson and Clover". See video below and ten others in chronological order at the FoundTrack youtube page.

UPDATE - The videos have been removed due to copyright infringement. I hope some of you were able to enjoy what we experienced last Friday. Please do what you can to see these guys live and buy their self-titled debut on March 9th through Sony.

Upcoming Tour Dates
3.1 - Paris, FR @ Nouveau Casino
3.3 - London, UK @ ICA
3.17 - Austin, TX @ Stubbs (SXSW) < ---- with Spoon, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, & The Walkmen