CULTURE COMPRESSED

THE WEIRD WONDERFUL WORLD OF GRIMES

“Claire Boucher, 27, otherwise known as electro-pop star Grimes, is legit nervous that we’re not going to get into PDT, one of the East Village’s numerous speakeasy-themed bars, entered through a phone booth in a hot dog joint. Crammed inside the booth, she panics. “Shit, I hope I have ID,” she says, rummaging through a messy cross-body bag, pulling out loose licenses—one from Vancouver, where she was born and raised, another from Los Angeles, where she’s spent the past year working on a follow-up to Visions (her 2012 breakout album), the anticipation for which is palpable. “Is it past March? What year is it? Have we passed March 2015?”