Blog: L.A. RECORD

Locally, it’s been a quiet year for a Fool’s Gold devotee—we’ve all had to reluctantly bite the bullet of a favorite band growing far beyond the tight smog-veiled embrace of Los Angeles and accept the gesture of actually sharing them with the rest of the world. If we were lucky, we got to see them once appear as the size of ants at the Hollywood Bowl when they were wisely chosen as the opening act for Tinariwen, (the real deal rebel Afro-beat purveyors from the Sahara) last June, but with the Bowl’s harsh policy of forbidding local acts to play [...]