
It’s Saturday morning, the cartoons are on. Oh wait, no, we're at The Echo, and it's Thursday night. The confusion stems from the bear mask-bedecked music-makers, eyes glowing bright red, settling in behind their electronic gadgetry to blast off with "Devil's Music," the titular cut off their sixth record.
Teddybears' new album features a galaxy of massive stars in Eve, Cee-Lo, Robyn, the Flaming Lips, and the B52s, but tonight it's a just the cartoonish core members pulsating Echo Park. Founding brothers Joakim Åhlund (bass) and Klas Åhlund (guitar), who began Teddybears as a grindcore group 10 years ago, play through a mishmash of genres all buoyed by an electronic beat.
Brothers Åhlund and vocalist Patrik Arve bash out electrifying sounds on their various machines. The Åhlund's production design background emerges when an enormous mirror-headed bear roars on the stage, sending double rainbows around the grooving crowd, both literally and psychic-ly. Just to spice it up one of the debonair grizzlies removed his brown teddybear head to don a mirrored teddy headpiece. He ripped it on a mirrored double-headed guitar. That's when everyone started hugging each other. Teddybears make you do shit like that.


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