7/30/07, Los Angeles: England's buzzy dish M.I.A. stormed The Echoplex last night like a miniature Missy Elliot, sporting strange rhymes and even stranger clothes.
The Sri Lankan singer offers an infectious, danceable mish-mash of various world styles all filtered through a uniquely British stye of hip-hop. Live, she was accompanied by a backup singer/dancer/hypewoman and a scratch-heavy DJ. Playing songs from her breakthrough debut Arular and her forthcoming disc Kala, her set only lasted about an hour (making the $20 cover seem steep), but the sold-out crowd was definitely digging it.
The Echoplex is a cavernous, sweaty club probably better-suited for DJs than bands you want to be able to see, which makes it unfortunate that both Boris and The Go! Team are booked there this fall.
Photo by the incandescent Chinapixie.
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