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"    Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Samsung   Leave it to French synthpop crooners M83 to cause a rave-heavy tizzy at their sold-out gig last night at Hammerstein Ballroom. The wild evening was presented by Samsung Mobile USA to promote the Samsung Galaxy S III device. Drinks (with glowing blue ice cubes) were sipped, hyperactive blinking sunglasses were passed out, and the band&amp;#039;s kaleidoscopic lighting was a psychedelic sight. Before the performance, ELLE.com went backstage to chat with the hood-cloaked M83 frontman, Anthony Gonzalez, who spilled on his music crush, digging Galliano sans the controversial events, and his wild year.  ELLE: M83 has quite the busy tour schedule as of late. How do you keep the energy up?      Anthony Gonzalez: I&amp;#039;m trying to avoid partying too much. So like once a week, I&amp;#039;ll get wasted. But otherwise, I&amp;#039;m pretty cool. I like to work out, I like to warm-up at least an hour before the show, and I try to practice with the band every afternoon.  ELLE: What&amp;#039;s on your tour rider?  AG: We all try to be healthier, so we have a lot of vegetables like beets and boiled eggs and protein. Nothing crazy. We&amp;#039;re actually a quiet band\u2014we don&amp;#039;t trash hotel rooms. We&amp;#039;re not very rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll.  ELLE: &amp;quot;Midnight City&amp;quot; has been heard pulsating on many Fashion Week runways. What are the sartorial secrets behind your rock-star aesthetic?  AG: Actually, I liked Galliano a lot before he went crazy. Also, Brandon Scott was doing all of these crazy clothes for me. His brand is B:Scott; he&amp;#039;s young and super talented. Levi&amp;#039;s hooks me up with some cool pants. Converse hooks me up, too. I&amp;#039;m lucky. I have people who really like the music and who are interested in supporting us. It&amp;#039;s like a sharing thing and I like that about this business. ELLE: Did you have a good feeling that &amp;quot;Midnight City&amp;quot; was the song that just had to be released? How are you dealing with the massive international success?  AG: I had a good feeling when I wrote it. It was catchy to me\u2014I was dancing to it in my studio. It&amp;#039;s so new, this kind of success. I&amp;#039;m still having a hard time getting used to it\u2014interviews and hearing my music on the radio and TV shows. But it&amp;#039;s amazing. Especially when you play this song live, and suddenly everyone is smiling and clapping. It&amp;#039;s the time of my life. I&amp;#039;m super proud and thankful, and I feel lucky because this doesn&amp;#039;t happen to everybody. Knock on wood that it keeps up for the next record.  ELLE: Who are your current musical obsessions?  AG: For me, the best album of the year is the Chairlift album [Something] and I don&amp;#039;t think that&amp;#039;s going to change. I&amp;#039;m obsessed with it. Caroline [Polachek] is so talented and creative, and she&amp;#039;s beautiful too. We tried to collaborate but we got drunk. I know Caroline pretty well. They deserve way more success.       Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Samsung   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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