MAINTAINING HIS COMPOZIER

Following the first of his three sold-out shows at L.A.'s Wiltern, Columbia artist Hozier suddenly realizes why the Gypsy woman told him to avoid the West Coast as he finds himself corralled into a photo op with VP/Editorial Geek Simon Glickman. The HITS nerd offered to share his recently penned essay tracing the influence of French post-structuralist thought on the works of Sonny Boy Williamson. "Em, that sounds grand," Hozier replied. "I'll bet the nice security man would like to read it too."