LOS ANGELES — For a guy who got his first big break with a song called "We Are Young," Jack Antonoff sure seems fixated on old music.
At last month's Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee, Antonoff — former guitarist of the pop-rock trio fun., whose exultant (if somewhat cringe) 2012 smash about youth topped Billboard's Hot 100 for six weeks on its way to winning song of the year at the Grammy Awards — convened a bunch of musician pals for an all-star tribute to his birth year of 1984.
Last week, he played Inglewood's Kia Forum with his current group, Bleachers, which stopped channeling Bruce Springsteen's time-honored thoughts on girls and New Jersey only to cover Tom Waits' "Jersey Girl."
