Magic is in the air, so we are starting most appropriately with Boom Pam and their take on Steve Miller’s “Abracadabra,” herein entitled “Alakazam.” It only got more magical from there with new music from Nick Cave, Fake Fruit, and Los Bitchos, all of whom are presently on desktop rotation. Next week: a special Fund Drive show.
All hail new royalty King Hannah and their studious and efficient delivery.
Barry Adamson delivers soundtracks to cinematic masterpieces that don’t exist.
Mestizo Beat is cooking with lots of spices and high heat.
Some of us are lucky. Some of us get to sit in a comfortable broadcasting studio and play Orville Peck, while others are hacking their way through a couple of gloomstalkers with nothing but the barely-magical weaponry a fifth-level figher can afford.
Crowded House brings us some of that uniquely shaped New Zealand sonic architecture.
Only a few bands sound large enough to warrant their use of all-caps, and BIG SPECIAL is one of them.
It doesn’t get more mid-century Goth than The Raveonettes picking up on the Velvet Underground’s “Venus In Furs”. Besides that, the tenor of the night tended to lean towards the acoustic, with a handful of sets exploring the pluckier side of things.
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