GEORGE -- I'll get to Nine Inch Nails in a bit, but M83 put on quite a show in the breakdown between NIN and TV On the Radio. Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez is the driving force for M83 and they opened up with "Graveyard Girl" off the group's latest album "Saturdays=Youth" a sort of love letter to 80s pop. Gonzalez props himself up behind a computer and a brightly lit box where he continually twists and pulls his beats and ambient sound.
Most of Saturdays=Youth is well-formed behind straightforward melodies, but Gonzalez's earlier stuff (which I'm not familiar) was more electronic dance tunes that got the crowd all kinds of worked up. They also played "Kim and Jessie" off the latest album, the same gorgeous 80s-type track for the video that was getting heavy rotation on MTV2's "Subterranean."