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Nature Show, Placeholder, The Royalty, Eiffel Tower
Wed. 05/16 | 7:30PM @ Beat Kitchen (map)
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Yawn, Kirby Kaiser, Labors
Tue. 05/15 | 9:00PM @ The Burlington (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 06, 2012Chicago’s Yawn (who used to be called Metrovox) rock some seriously sticky electro pop by busting out effortlessly catchy choruses. The stickiness of their songs is accentuated by harmonious falsettos, arresting tribal rhythms, dynamic drum loops, lots of bouncy blips and, of course, a whole lot of (almost) danceable bleeps. They also throw in a little bit of 8-bit action too.
more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 10, 2012“La Sera is the side project of Vivian Girls’ Katy Goodman, and it draws on the same classic Ramones vs. girl group influences as her “other” band. If such things are your bag, we have a feeling you’ll find a lot to like in her latest album, Sees the Light (Hardly Art, 2012). Check out the video for “Please Be My Third Eye,” directed by Vice Cooler (aka Hawnay Troof), who’s rather overdue a new album himself.”
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Too magnetic and fun to forever play the sidekick in the Vivian Girls, Katy Goodman (enough already with “Kickball Katy,” all right?) moved to center stage when she took the plunge and went solo as La Sera—a move that also seemed like a sign that the buzz around Brooklyn’s favorite female purveyors of reverb-drenched garage had begun to subside. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from Heave Media
May 14, 2012“Darling” is a fitting way to describe what Allo Darlin’ are doing: bright, beachy, self-reflexive pop, performed in the age of cold electro and drug-addled lo-fi. Read more about the band at ”http://www.heavemedia.com/2012/04/17/allo-darlin-europe-review/">HEAVEmedia.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 10, 2012“Could Allo Darlin’ be the indie-pop Messiah? It’s not out of the realm given the inspired twee found on Europe, the band’s latest release via Slumberland Records. Based in London, the outfit came together in 2009 when Aussie-born singer/uke strummer Elizabeth Morris (ex-Talulah Gosh, Tender Trap) connected with Paul Rains (guitar), Bill Botting (bass), and Michael Collins (drums). Their self-titled debut earned them a spot in the pop guard and their sophomore effort, with its catchy anthems and Morris’ delicate yet assured vocals and rich lyrics, is certain to bring new minions into the fold. Tonight, Morris’ quartet is supported by the Wave Pictures, a fun British trio which takes direction from the Modern Lovers.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 01, 2012As the momentum and chaos surrounding her day job as one half of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls has calmed, Amy Ray has been stretching her creative muscles by running the independent record label Daemon Records and embarking on a solo career. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012What Donald Barthelme was to postmodern short fiction in the 80s, Swedish five-piece Meshuggah is to progressive death metal in the 10s—each has inspired a legion of talented imitators whose failure to approach the idiosyncratic power of the original only enhances its reputation. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 01, 2012With the current musical landscape peppered with barely legal hit-makers, it’s a novelty to come across musicians with decades of experience under their belts. more at avclub.com
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Killer Moon (record release), Creepy Band, Alma Negra
Mon. 05/14 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 08, 2012“Chicago-based trio Killer Moon describe themselves as “a psychedelic jam band with classic rock and doomy sludge undertones,” which is too spot-on for us to meddle with. Tracks like “Summer” and “Tunnel Vision” would fit comfortably in either the local psych-rock circle or Chicago’s bastion of progressive (which is not to say prog) metal. (The band’s long-gestating LP Tunnel Vision — which gets the record-release toast at this Empty Bottle gig — is produced by local go-to metal butterfly Sanford Parker.) Like-minded Alma Negra and theatrical sideshow punks Creepy Band open.” more at flavorpill.com
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Hive Mind, Raven Strain, Liable For Abuse
Mon. 05/14 | 9:00PM @ The Burlington (map)
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Royal Canoe, The Mommies
Sun. 05/13 | 9:00PM @ Township (formerly Pancho's) (map)
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Dax Riggs traffics in an unusually dark style of blues-rock that digs deeper than most white boys panning the last remaining mud from the Delta swamps. more at avclub.com
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Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Pierced Arrows, Don't, Sir DJ
Sat. 05/12 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Chicago still likes to claim Quintron as one of its own—in the early 90s he played in Math and ran a Wicker Park space called Milk of Burgundy—but the keyboardist and singer has been inseparable from New Orleans since he met his wife and collaborator, puppeteer Miss Pussycat, while on tour there. more at chicagoreader.com
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SOLD OUT! Electric Six: Performing "Fire" in its Entirety
Sat. 05/12 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Everyone has one song they’re willing to break out at any social occasion, absolutely certain it’ll be a hit no matter who’s there. For the second half of the aughts, I would play Electric Six’s “Danger! High Voltage” whenever a party looked like it was headed for an early demise. I’d sing it whenever the queue at a karaoke bar got clogged with requests for sappy, melodramatic ballads. Basically, whenever I had a spare moment, you were going to hear that song.more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Andrew Bird’s songwriting approach is seemingly paradoxical, at once highly improvisational and long-simmering, with material sometimes taking years to finally gel together. The results are familiar to anyone who’s followed his string of breezily baroque albums over the last decade, full of virtuosic and engaging interweavings of melodies and loops spun from violin, whistling, guitar, and Bird’s warbling tenor. While his songs are elegantly crafted and artfully arranged, he’s careful not to lose the sense that music is about creating a space to explore, to wander through, and maybe even get lost in. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Andrew Bird is perhaps the most famous indie violin rocker in the scene today. That’s not exactly saying much since it’s pretty much a two man race between him and the guy from Final Fantasy. But fame aside, what Andrew Bird really is is really good. Talk about an imaginative artist. Bird does this interesting thing where he plucks and bows his violin, then immediately samples the results, layering sounds with guitars, whistles, glockenspiels and, of course, vocals.
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CAUDog Records Present: THE FUTURE LAUREATES, COBALT & THE HIRED GUNS, TREE
Sat. 05/12 | 8:00PM @ Subterranean (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 06, 2012Reptar is a band that makes something that can only be described as giddy-pop. For this music is… wait. Hold on. Let’s back up a second. Of COURSE there are other ways of describing Reptar’s music. “Can only be described” is an often used music writer’s trick to make their words and opinions seem definitive. And, of course, nothing is definitive except that nothing is definite.
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Formed on the isle of Crete in Greece, Grouplove has a sort of Pixies-meets-Violent Femmes vibe that works in its favor. Just like those two collectives of ’80s eccentrics, Grouplove churns out tunes that are equal parts poppy and strange. “Don’t Say Oh Well,” off Grouplove’s 2010 EP, is all about the band’s success, a well-trodden subject for musicians. more at avclub.com
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WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA, MODEL N, FLASHING BLUE LIGHTS
Sat. 05/12 | 6:00PM @ Beat Kitchen (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Another rock band that says, “Yes, but what I really want to do is dance.” VHS or Beta met in the onetime indie mecca of Louisville (birthplace of Slint, Palace, and Rodan in its glory days) in 1997 and discovered that, besides indie rock, they were all kind of into disco, soul and French techno, too. So they started a band and people started dancing thinking they were listening to Duran Duran.
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
May 03, 2012With a name that references the videotape format wars of the ‘70s and ‘80s, VHS or Beta makes no secret about their retro proclivities. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012It comes as little surprise that the Arcade Fire’s violinist, Sarah Neufeld, contributed to Plants And Animals’ debut full-length, Parc Avenue. Not just because both bands hail from Montreal, but also because the two groups use so much of the same orchestral swooning and musical genre melding. Plants And Animals’ sound blends artsy rock, heavy folk, and grand polyphonic sprees into an easily likeable mishmash, while managing to tread a path somehow all its own.more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Montreal’s Plants and Animals play hyper-melodic and generally grand pop music with horns and strings and soaring soulful choruses and stuff. It would be easy to compare this band to Arcade Fire. After all, they’ve shared a string player or two with that most famous band, and of course, they share the same hometown (btw, Montreal’s bagels blow NYC bagels out of the Hudson). And since we’re all about going for the easy dangling carrot here at Oh My Rockness, you’d probably like Plants and Animals if you like Arcade Fire.
more at ohmyrockness.com
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Brighton, MA | CHAMPIONS | Suns | Ballroom Boxer
Fri. 05/11 | 8:30PM - Sat. 05/12 @ Beat Kitchen (map)
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Aktar Aktar, Snow Ghost, Hawaiian Lion, Waxworks
Fri. 05/11 | 8:30PM @ Subterranean (map)
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Nature Show, Placeholder, The Royalty, Eiffel Tower
Wed. 05/16 | 7:30PM @ Beat Kitchen (map)
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Yawn, Kirby Kaiser, Labors
Tue. 05/15 | 9:00PM @ The Burlington (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 06, 2012Chicago’s Yawn (who used to be called Metrovox) rock some seriously sticky electro pop by busting out effortlessly catchy choruses. The stickiness of their songs is accentuated by harmonious falsettos, arresting tribal rhythms, dynamic drum loops, lots of bouncy blips and, of course, a whole lot of (almost) danceable bleeps. They also throw in a little bit of 8-bit action too.
more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 10, 2012“La Sera is the side project of Vivian Girls’ Katy Goodman, and it draws on the same classic Ramones vs. girl group influences as her “other” band. If such things are your bag, we have a feeling you’ll find a lot to like in her latest album, Sees the Light (Hardly Art, 2012). Check out the video for “Please Be My Third Eye,” directed by Vice Cooler (aka Hawnay Troof), who’s rather overdue a new album himself.”
Tom Hawking, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com -
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Too magnetic and fun to forever play the sidekick in the Vivian Girls, Katy Goodman (enough already with “Kickball Katy,” all right?) moved to center stage when she took the plunge and went solo as La Sera—a move that also seemed like a sign that the buzz around Brooklyn’s favorite female purveyors of reverb-drenched garage had begun to subside. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from Heave Media
May 14, 2012“Darling” is a fitting way to describe what Allo Darlin’ are doing: bright, beachy, self-reflexive pop, performed in the age of cold electro and drug-addled lo-fi. Read more about the band at ”http://www.heavemedia.com/2012/04/17/allo-darlin-europe-review/">HEAVEmedia.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 10, 2012“Could Allo Darlin’ be the indie-pop Messiah? It’s not out of the realm given the inspired twee found on Europe, the band’s latest release via Slumberland Records. Based in London, the outfit came together in 2009 when Aussie-born singer/uke strummer Elizabeth Morris (ex-Talulah Gosh, Tender Trap) connected with Paul Rains (guitar), Bill Botting (bass), and Michael Collins (drums). Their self-titled debut earned them a spot in the pop guard and their sophomore effort, with its catchy anthems and Morris’ delicate yet assured vocals and rich lyrics, is certain to bring new minions into the fold. Tonight, Morris’ quartet is supported by the Wave Pictures, a fun British trio which takes direction from the Modern Lovers.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 01, 2012As the momentum and chaos surrounding her day job as one half of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls has calmed, Amy Ray has been stretching her creative muscles by running the independent record label Daemon Records and embarking on a solo career. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012What Donald Barthelme was to postmodern short fiction in the 80s, Swedish five-piece Meshuggah is to progressive death metal in the 10s—each has inspired a legion of talented imitators whose failure to approach the idiosyncratic power of the original only enhances its reputation. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 01, 2012With the current musical landscape peppered with barely legal hit-makers, it’s a novelty to come across musicians with decades of experience under their belts. more at avclub.com
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Killer Moon (record release), Creepy Band, Alma Negra
Mon. 05/14 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 08, 2012“Chicago-based trio Killer Moon describe themselves as “a psychedelic jam band with classic rock and doomy sludge undertones,” which is too spot-on for us to meddle with. Tracks like “Summer” and “Tunnel Vision” would fit comfortably in either the local psych-rock circle or Chicago’s bastion of progressive (which is not to say prog) metal. (The band’s long-gestating LP Tunnel Vision — which gets the record-release toast at this Empty Bottle gig — is produced by local go-to metal butterfly Sanford Parker.) Like-minded Alma Negra and theatrical sideshow punks Creepy Band open.” more at flavorpill.com
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Hive Mind, Raven Strain, Liable For Abuse
Mon. 05/14 | 9:00PM @ The Burlington (map)
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Royal Canoe, The Mommies
Sun. 05/13 | 9:00PM @ Township (formerly Pancho's) (map)
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Dax Riggs traffics in an unusually dark style of blues-rock that digs deeper than most white boys panning the last remaining mud from the Delta swamps. more at avclub.com
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Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Pierced Arrows, Don't, Sir DJ
Sat. 05/12 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 06, 2012Sat 5/12
10:00 PM
Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Pierced Arrows, Don’t
Empty Bottle
21+
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Chicago still likes to claim Quintron as one of its own—in the early 90s he played in Math and ran a Wicker Park space called Milk of Burgundy—but the keyboardist and singer has been inseparable from New Orleans since he met his wife and collaborator, puppeteer Miss Pussycat, while on tour there. more at chicagoreader.com
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SOLD OUT! Electric Six: Performing "Fire" in its Entirety
Sat. 05/12 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Everyone has one song they’re willing to break out at any social occasion, absolutely certain it’ll be a hit no matter who’s there. For the second half of the aughts, I would play Electric Six’s “Danger! High Voltage” whenever a party looked like it was headed for an early demise. I’d sing it whenever the queue at a karaoke bar got clogged with requests for sappy, melodramatic ballads. Basically, whenever I had a spare moment, you were going to hear that song.more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Andrew Bird’s songwriting approach is seemingly paradoxical, at once highly improvisational and long-simmering, with material sometimes taking years to finally gel together. The results are familiar to anyone who’s followed his string of breezily baroque albums over the last decade, full of virtuosic and engaging interweavings of melodies and loops spun from violin, whistling, guitar, and Bird’s warbling tenor. While his songs are elegantly crafted and artfully arranged, he’s careful not to lose the sense that music is about creating a space to explore, to wander through, and maybe even get lost in. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Andrew Bird is perhaps the most famous indie violin rocker in the scene today. That’s not exactly saying much since it’s pretty much a two man race between him and the guy from Final Fantasy. But fame aside, what Andrew Bird really is is really good. Talk about an imaginative artist. Bird does this interesting thing where he plucks and bows his violin, then immediately samples the results, layering sounds with guitars, whistles, glockenspiels and, of course, vocals.
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CAUDog Records Present: THE FUTURE LAUREATES, COBALT & THE HIRED GUNS, TREE
Sat. 05/12 | 8:00PM @ Subterranean (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 06, 2012Reptar is a band that makes something that can only be described as giddy-pop. For this music is… wait. Hold on. Let’s back up a second. Of COURSE there are other ways of describing Reptar’s music. “Can only be described” is an often used music writer’s trick to make their words and opinions seem definitive. And, of course, nothing is definitive except that nothing is definite.
more at ohmyrockness.com -
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Formed on the isle of Crete in Greece, Grouplove has a sort of Pixies-meets-Violent Femmes vibe that works in its favor. Just like those two collectives of ’80s eccentrics, Grouplove churns out tunes that are equal parts poppy and strange. “Don’t Say Oh Well,” off Grouplove’s 2010 EP, is all about the band’s success, a well-trodden subject for musicians. more at avclub.com
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WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA, MODEL N, FLASHING BLUE LIGHTS
Sat. 05/12 | 6:00PM @ Beat Kitchen (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Another rock band that says, “Yes, but what I really want to do is dance.” VHS or Beta met in the onetime indie mecca of Louisville (birthplace of Slint, Palace, and Rodan in its glory days) in 1997 and discovered that, besides indie rock, they were all kind of into disco, soul and French techno, too. So they started a band and people started dancing thinking they were listening to Duran Duran.
more at ohmyrockness.com -
Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
May 03, 2012With a name that references the videotape format wars of the ‘70s and ‘80s, VHS or Beta makes no secret about their retro proclivities. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012It comes as little surprise that the Arcade Fire’s violinist, Sarah Neufeld, contributed to Plants And Animals’ debut full-length, Parc Avenue. Not just because both bands hail from Montreal, but also because the two groups use so much of the same orchestral swooning and musical genre melding. Plants And Animals’ sound blends artsy rock, heavy folk, and grand polyphonic sprees into an easily likeable mishmash, while managing to tread a path somehow all its own.more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Montreal’s Plants and Animals play hyper-melodic and generally grand pop music with horns and strings and soaring soulful choruses and stuff. It would be easy to compare this band to Arcade Fire. After all, they’ve shared a string player or two with that most famous band, and of course, they share the same hometown (btw, Montreal’s bagels blow NYC bagels out of the Hudson). And since we’re all about going for the easy dangling carrot here at Oh My Rockness, you’d probably like Plants and Animals if you like Arcade Fire.
more at ohmyrockness.com
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Brighton, MA | CHAMPIONS | Suns | Ballroom Boxer
Fri. 05/11 | 8:30PM - Sat. 05/12 @ Beat Kitchen (map)
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Aktar Aktar, Snow Ghost, Hawaiian Lion, Waxworks
Fri. 05/11 | 8:30PM @ Subterranean (map)
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3 days agoTexas trio Fungi Girls is three young dudes (like, mid-teens young) that rock some short and noisy lo-fi garage pop that blisters by you, leaving a nice little psych trail in its wake. Yes you've heard all this before, but Fungi Girls prove you can always hear just a little bit more. more at ohmyrockness.com
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3 days agoDo you like bands that rock light shows and lasers while making exceptionally catchy (and dare I say "funky") electro-dance-rock? Of course you do. If you didn't like light shows and lasers, you'd just be a show-going robot that happened to have a heartbeat. No wait, even robots like lasers and light shows. Robots rule. more at ohmyrockness.com
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