Miike Snow/Mark Ronson & the business

(Top picture is Miike Snow. Bottom is Mark Ronson and the business)

So here's a fun story for you guys. Last night, I went to see Miike Snow at the Wiltern. The opening band was Mark Ronson and the business, which was hands down the best opening band I've ever witnessed. You should all listen to them. I was almost worried that Miike Snow would have a hard time following them up. Anyways, so let me first just thank Miike Snow and the Wiltern for sabotaging what started out as one of the best shows I've ever been to. Basically, Miike Snow came on stage. Fogged up the Wiltern. Played an AMAZING 7 songs and then some sort of bizarre power outage occurred and one of the keyboards completely died. They had to pause the concert. We waited for about 20 minutes while 5 tech guys came on stage and attempted to fix the keyboard. Finally they came back on, played one more song, AND THEN LEFT! No encore! Nothing! Everyone was so incredibly angry. Everyone refused to leave and kept yelling for them to finish their damn set. No luck. They pulled the curtains up and took the set apart with everyone still standing there yelling. Complete bullshit if you ask me. People pay good money to see these shows and hear their favorite (or at least the most popular) songs. They didn't even play "Animal" or "The Rabbit", which are some of their most famous songs. I managed to get the set list off the stage and it says that "Animal" is on there, and yet they didn't play it. Something strange was going on. Whether it had to do with the time or some technical difficulties preventing them to continue playing, I guess we'll never know. But all in all, Miike Snow, you played half a set, so I expect half of my money back.

Thats enough ranting for one day. On the bright side, I'll say, although it was incredibly short, it was one of the best shows I've ever been to. Hands down. They did an amazing cover of Vampire Weekend's "Mansard Roof". Absolutely fantastic. I'll definitely be seeing them again when they come back with their new record.

Tomorrow (well, technically today I guess), I'm going back to the Wiltern and seeing Jónsi! Lets just hope nothing goes wrong with that show because I'll be paying twice as much for the ticket...