Cruising down to Costa Mesa tonight are Joshua Tree's Gram Rabbit, a slinky electro-pop duo (Jesika Von Rabbit and Todd Rutherford) whose songs are all gleaming surfaces and curvy contours. Jesika imbues the quasi-funky backdrops with seductively creamy vocals and glam-diva hauteur. Attention, Devo fans: “Hot Spit” off Gram Rabbit's new album, Radio Angel & the Robot Beat, is a clever, wide-screen homage to that band's iconic 1980 hit “Whip It.”
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Chris SansenbachU2 in Anaheim, April 2005.U2, YouTube. It just makes too much sense.We talked earlier this week about how massively packed the Rose Bowl in Pasadena will be for the U2 show this Sunday, with 100,000 cross-generational music fans coming from across Southern California--really, just think about that drive there, and the parking, and the leaving the parking lot, and the drive home. It took me a half hour to leave the parking garage of the Bren Events Center at UCI on Sunday, for