Here We Go Magic, Bell Biv DeVoe, and The Darkness all rolled up into one musical burrito.

The driver said, “He began to tell me who he was, but I didn’t believe him. But when we stopped and he left the car, I Googled him, and everything popped up.”

Waters told the couple that he’s “preparing to write a book about his adventures of hitchhiking across America.”

This morning the bassist for Here We Go Magic, Jen Turner, spoke with us about their magical experience with hitchhiking John Waters.

Indie director John Waters was reportedly hitchhiking in Ohio today when he was picked up by an indie rock bank, Here We Go Magic. Sources say he bought everyone lunch and taught them new words!

One of the best shows I saw in 2009 was the Grizzly Bear gig at the 9:30 Club in June of last year. But not because of the headliners—because of the openers. Here We Go Magic were unknown to me then, but their technicolor, tripped-out forays into space pop really blew me away that night. The band didn’t stay under the radar for long; Pitchfork and others bestowed glowing reviews on their self-titled album,…

The Walkmen provided some glimpses of the future on Tuesday night, playing a 17-song set to a pretty-full-but-not-sold-out 9:30 Club. However, if Tuesday’s set served a as an indicator as to the band’s songwriting direction, then they haven’t quite made their mind up yet. The word “boozy” has been used to describe the band’s sound in the past, but “boozy” only buys you a finite line of credit. The band’s most recent work has showcased multiple divergent influences. 2006’s A Hundred Miles Off brought in horns and a bit of punk rock, while 2008’s You & Me brought a more soulful sound, making singer Hamilton Leithauser sound like an age-old indie-rock crooner.

At the end of 2007, one of the blogosphere’s more ubiquitous concertgoers named Grizzly Bear his number one show of the year. Initially, this announcement prompted me to kick myself for using that particular set as a bathroom/lunch break at that year’s Pitchfork Festival. However, as time passed, I started to question his judgment. Grizzly Bear’s breakout 2006 release, Yellow House‘s combination of stunning harmonies and instrumentation and tedious meandering makes it a difficult album…

In March, we started hearing passing recommendations about a band out of New York called Here We Go Magic. Once you get past the awkward syntax, those recommendations add up. The woozy dream pop that songwriter Luke Temple says to have recorded in a “two month period of stream-of-consciousness recording” is perfect for post-work mental detox and an unsurprising choice as openers for the ethereal, meandering indie rockers Grizzly Bear. Here We Go Magic’s…