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The Airborne Toxic Event plays Disney Hall
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The Airborne Toxic Event plays Disney Hall
The Airborne Toxic Event plays Disney Hall
On Dec. 5, The Airborne Toxic Event will take the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. The up-and-coming L.A. band will share the stage with the Calder Quartet and other special guests as part of the Hall's West Coast Left Coast series.
The Airborne Toxic Event got started a few years ago by Los Feliz writer Mikel Jollett.
He had been writing about music for the likes of NPR's "All Things Considered" and FILTER magazine. But he decided to take a year off from writing about music to try his hand at penning a novel instead.
But he found himself writing songs instead of chapters... and so he launched a band. At first he failed miserably at recruiting musicians to join him. "I couldn't get arrested," he told KPCC's Alex Cohen.
Finally, he found the right mix in Noah Harmon, Steven Chen, Daren Taylor and Anna Bulbrook.
The band has found success fairly fast. In December 2006, Rolling Stone named them one of the “Top 25 Bands on MySpace.”
The Los Angeles Times named the group one of the top three L.A. bands to watch in 2008. And now... they take the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall!
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