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FOXYGEN

BY JAMIE ROBASH

Bred in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Sam France and Jonathon Rado began Foxygen as 15-year-olds fascinated by the documentary Dig, which followed the drug-fueled comradery-turned-bizarre-feud between Anton Newcombe-led psych-rock project The Brian Jonestown Massacre and glam-pop act The Dandy Warhols. Foxygen sided with Newcombe’s camp and their first three offerings Take the Kids Off Broadway, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, and …Star Power are firmly rooted in their master’s sphere of influence, so much so that France even developed a reputation for losing his shit on stage vis-a-vis Newcombe.

8 PM LISTEN
$22 TICKETS

 

DEVENDRA BANHART

BY WILLIAM LENNON

When your breakout album is called Cripple Crow, it seems unlikely you’ll venture too far from your trademark Brooklyn-by-way-of-San-Francisco urban/rustic aesthetic. But the more you listen to Devendra Banhart, the more his music — which sounds sleepy at first — starts to lure you into a trippy trance. Yes, Banhart looks like a traveling songsmith as imagined by Delos Incorporated, a walkabout character in a theme park where you can sip snake oil lattes and read your horoscope by gaslight. But in addition to being a master of the heavy-lidded hipster ballad, he’s a connoisseur of genre. Each song is a half-lullaby/half-spell suspended in a rich, glittery haze, and Banhart’s tendency to waltz into salsa or klezmer or a Bollywood dance number injects his music with an unmistakably unique pop and crackle.

8 PM LISTEN
$26 TICKETS

DAVY KNOWLES

BY JONNA NEWBERRY

If you’re looking for the quintessential modern bluesman, look no further. Davy Knowles is your man. You might think he took his influences from the Deep South but since his native country is the Isle of Man, he instead takes Celtic influences and layers them over an authentic as hell Mississippi Delta blues sound. Starting out with his former band Back Door Slam, those eclectic influences first made him a hit on American soil. When Back Door Slam broke up in 2009, Knowles released his first solo album Coming Up for Air as the opening salvo in a modern-day blues insurgency that continues to be led by his gritty, masculine vocals and strongly abrasive guitar-based sound.

10 PM LISTEN
$15 TICKETS

 

CROCODILES

BY KAREN HEERINGA

Imagine a person from the 1960s travels to the year 2017. If the first music they heard was Crocodiles, they might possibly kill themselves right there on the spot. Yet one man’s complete racket is another man’s new flavor of pop. Crocodiles do not have a Top 40 sound, but something tells me they like it that way. There’s weird echo-y guitars, a constant hum throughout each song, and a voice clearly unfit for The Voice. And yet I can’t stop listening. Pay attention, Crocodiles: there’s a pop song buried somewhere in there.

WITH AJ DAVILA
9 PM LISTEN
$12 TICKETS

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