58 San Diego Reader April 21, 2016
This Week In Music
Thursday
I’m told black-metal purists consider Deafheaven “hipster metal.” I don’t know any black-metal purists, but I think I get where they’re coming from. Deafheaven’s sonic blasts and scream-singing come with humanized, earthbound lyrics and haircuts. And with 2013’s cathartic Sunbather record, some success outside the black-metal genre. Hell, they
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trio Prong plays Brick by Brick with Kultier, Redmond, and Dead Serial Killers...L.A.’s scuzz-pop four-piece Shark Toys joins Boston’s Bent Shapes, who will play “hyphy nrrrd pop for kids on the skids” at South Park bar Whistle Stop... the always entertainin’ rock ’n’ tonk band Rio Peligroso plays the Turquoise Room at Riviera Supper Club in La Mesa...while our ol’ San Luis friends Wordsauce take the stage at Davina’s in O’side for a night of their infectious funk-hop.
Saturday DEAFHEAVEN AT CASBAH
just played Coachella behind the well-received New Bermuda, a record Pitchfork named one of 2015’s 50 best for “unabashedly treating the roar of electric guitars as a holy experience.” Isn’t it? Deaf- heaven jacks in at Casbah after L.A.-based industrial duo Youth Code Thursday night.... Best of the rest: the nu-grass Venice Beach big band Dust- bowl Revival hits the Hideout...“Electro-swing” producer Parov Stelar plays Observatory North
Park...and Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s at Belly Up behind frontman Ruban Nielson’s confessional record Multi-Love, a musical chronicle of his year in a polyamorous relationship. Maybe he should call the group Unknown Mormon Orchestra.
Friday
In from the Fading Frontier, Bradford Cox and his Atlanta band of indie-rockers and psych- poppers Deerhunter shake off the desert dust of Coachella and plug in at Observatory North Park Friday night. If last year’s Fading Frontier wasn’t your favorite Deerhunter disc, you’ll be happy to hear, the word out of Indio is that the band’s high-water mark, 2010’s Halcyon Digest, still plays an instrumental role in their live show.... Else: You want fries with that? Fast-food Sabbath act Mac Sabbath headlines sets by local indie hits Kids in Heat, the Kabbs, and Shady Francos at the Music Box in Little Italy...NYC thrash-metal
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Reader contributor and local mod-rock bandaholic Bart Mendoza (Manual Scan, the Shambles, True Stories) and a stable of San Diego staples will pay tribute to “the Modfather,” Paul Weller (The Jam, Style Council), at Bar Pink Saturday night. Knowing Mendoza, this will be a top-shelf lineup that’ll do Weller v. well...while there’s another sorta tribute at Soda Bar, where the all-female band Black Sab- bitch rocks Ozzy-era Sabbath and GayC/DC does its fabulous take on, um, cock rock.... Old-school Austin street punks (ca. 1995) Lower Class Brats turn up at Til-Two with Channel 3 and the Wid- ows Saturday night. The Brats have an Anglophilic bent, taking a bit of sound and snot from the school of Oi! and bit of style and substance from A Clockwork Orange.... Else: 25-year-strong L.A. hip-hop trio Dilated Peoples play Observatory North Park behind their latest Rhymesayers release, Directors of Photography...while Belly Up stages the Ann Wilson Thing. The Heart singer sings “the
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old Bowie single) hit the Music Box Sunday night. Visconti had been with Bowie as producer/player since his 1969 self-titled release right up through his Blackstar farewell record. According to tour reports, Visconti has a passion for — and firsthand experience with — Bowie’s Man Who Sold the World album and his Ziggy era.... “The words ‘funk’ and ‘ark’ imply some kind of salvage of the old school,” writes Dave Good about the Funk Ark, but not so. Though the D.C. collective doesn’t dismiss the George Clinton “school of chops,” the band has honed a jazzy Afrobeat dance set that promises to shake Soda Bar to the ground Sunday night.... Best of the rest finds cover bands the Who Generation, Heart Love Alive, and Journeymen aping their classic-rock-radio faves at House of Blues... while local punk-rawk supergroup Death Eyes (Death Crisis + Rats Eyes) kicks off their springtime tour up the Left Coast at Whistle Stop. Read our “Record Dust redux” report in this week’s issue, and then go bend Blackie’s ear about Records Collecting Dust II. He got Page Hamilton, Walter Schreifels, and Ian fucking MacKaye to sit for interviews.
Monday HOLY HOLY AT MUSIC BOX
blues with a rock edge,” she says. “I love the blues. The Ann Wilson Thing gives me an opportunity to rock the blues up close and personal.” No denying those pipes.
Los Angeles–via–Nashville dream-pop duo Mag- ic Wands takes the stage at Soda Bar behind this year’s Jupiter, a record that unashamedly — and effectively — mines ’80s Brit pop like Lush, Cure, and the Banshees. Shoegaze-y tourmates Drinking Flowers and local indie kids Future Age set it up.... This month’s “Undercover at the Office” collective tackles new-wave greats the Talking Heads, Devo, and Violent Femmes. This is the favored local event’s two-year anniver- sary party and should be a ballzout blast.... While across the intersection at Bar Pink Tori Roze & the Hot Mess play their monthly Soultry Mon- day sets at the North Park hot spot.
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The hard-rock Canada band Black Mountain’s latest Jagjaguwar record, titled IV — a cheeky response to all them Led Zeppelin comparisons? — garnered a middling 7.5 rating from the tastemakers at Pitchfork last week for popping and progging up their favored classic-rock works. Dryw Keltz has a chat with the band’s big-
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dance duo Humans hit Soda Bar behind Noon- tide Wednesday night...while Texas-bred indie folkies Jamestown Revival roll into Belly Up behind their latest Americana set, Utah. — Barnaby Monk
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HAR MAR SUPERSTAR AT CASBAH
bearded frontman, Stephen McBean, in advance of Tuesday night’s show at Casbah in this week’s “Dispensary rock” Blurt.... Up in the Heights Tuesday night, Hideout sets up NYC rock-roll quartet Dirty Fences with Flytraps and Kids in Heat. Clicking around last year’s Full Tramp disc, it’s clear why the Fences are NYC favorites — their tunes are fueled by Ramones rhythm and vocal style and Strokes jangle.
Wednesday
I’m pressed up against the gutter again, so real quik, humpnight hits like this: Novelty, nudity, R&B — Sean Tillman’s crooning alter-ego Har Mar Superstar will split a bill with “Potland chunk-rock” band White Fang at Casbah, which promises to be alternately hilarious and awkward. Measure your head before ordering.... Else: Vancouver’s Juno-nominated electro-pop
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