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THE COOL KIDS

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April 14

BY ANGIE MARTIN

You know you’re cool when you can put the word “cool” in your name without sounding off base when creating hip hop music that amps up the cool factor. Veteran duo The Cool Kids live up to their name and even go by monikers that increase their coolness. Antoine “Sir Michael Rocks” Reed from Illinois and Evan “Chuck Inglish” Ingersoll from Michigan are young millennials who founded their band through the help of old MySpace (remember that?) pages and the increase in the popularity of music festivals. Like all good young artists, the duo played it smart spreading their music and name through social media. Their sound pulls from pioneers of hip hop like A Tribe called Quest and De La Soul, with an experiential tinge and eclectic rhythms. If that’s not cool, we don’t know what is.

WITH OWEN BONES, THE BOY ILLINOIS + #EB25 
9 PM LISTEN
$25 TICKETS

 

BONOBO

CONCORD MUSIC HALL

May 18

BY ANGIE MARTIN

The bonobo chimpanzee is an endangered species that dwells in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In your lifetime, you probably won’t be able to dance along with a bonobo. Lucky for us, we have veteran electronic experimentalist Bonobo to play with — and there’s plenty of his music to go around. He’s graced thousands of festivalgoers with sliced beats that pump up the energy while also maintaining a full band that backs his meticulous structures, accounting for the copious amounts of loud and steady music to shake it to. Bonobo makes music for all animals to enjoy, particularly the human kind.

9 PM LISTEN
$30 TICKETS

BETTY WHO

CONCORD MUSIC HALL

April 20

BY LISA MROCK

Aussie indie dance pop phenom Jessica Newham, better known as Betty Who, has a new album called The Valley that she’d like you to know about. Her debut LP Take Me When You Go was released back in 2014, but she made waves last year for her fun and outgoing cover of Donna Lewis’ “I Love You Always Forever.” These days, the sultry crooner has a new video out for “Some Kinda Wonderful,” an anthemic disco jam so likeable you can practically feel the confetti raining down as you listen. “You Can Cry Tomorrow” is another standout example of her trademark style of shining pop that gives us something to look forward to as we peer at the rain outside our windows.

WITH VÉRITÉ
6 PM LISTEN
$20 TICKETS

THE BESNARD LAKES

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May 15

BY ANGIE MARTIN

The Besnard Lakes are no strangers to illustrating the art and science of songwriting. The Canadian sextet and longtime member of beloved indie label Jagjaguwar precisely structure each track as if they’re building a village of Tetris pieces that fit perfectly with each strum of the guitar, outpour of vocals, or beat of the drum. Vocalists Olga Goreas and husband Jace Lasek alternate lead vocals and accurately pay homage to their indie pop shoegaze heart and soul within each track. Their vocals atop one another (or in succession) sound as if the universe conspired to bring them together in both matrimony and music making. It’s hard to say if one of them is art and the other is science, but it’s easy to declare that their life-long commitment to each other continues to birth dreamy music we all need in our lives.

WITH THE LIFE AND TIMES + AURORA LOREALIS
9 PM LISTEN
$12 TICKETS

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