Kitten with Kitty and Away Msg Friday, July 11, 8 p.m. $13–$15 Kings, kingsbarcade.com Chloe Chaidez seems genetically predisposed to lead a band of rock stars: The daughter of a Los Angeles punk drummer, the 19-year-old singer already possesses the confidence and experience of a seasoned music-business professional. She performed Bowie covers for audiences as […]
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The strangely similar career paths of Vampire Weekend and Blur’s Damon Albarn
Vampire Weekend with Cults Thursday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., $26–$41 Red Hat Amphitheater Damon Albarn Thursday, June 12, 8 p.m., $43Lincoln Theatre During a concert last fall at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Vampire Weekend diverged from their own material exactly once, covering Blur’s Dadaist jock jam “Song 2.” The choice was a surprisingly big, […]
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Five words with the globe-trotting Bombay Bicycle Club
Bombay Bicycle Club with Royal Canoe Monday, May 12, 8 p.m. $17–$20 Cat’s Cradle The members of London quartet Bombay Bicycle Club were only 15 years old when they won a contest that landed them the opening slot at the massive V Festival in 2006. That set was the first for a big crowd in […]
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Cloud Nothings clamor for a rock renaissance with volume
Cloud Nothings with Ryley Walker Thursday, April 17, 9 p.m. $12 Cats’ Cradle catscradle.com Poor Rock music fans: As the reach and imagination of both hip-hop and electronica have expanded, they’ve suffered through a decade of beloved indie rock that’s worked very hard to create new ways to stop just short of, you know, rocking. […]
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Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed band takes the Internet on tour
The Pizza Underground with Toby Goodshank Thursday, March 20 $13–$15, 9 p.m. kingsbarcade.com As the myth goes, very few people actually ordered slices at Famous Original Andy’s, but nearly anyone who did went on to open their own famed pizzerias. Lou Knead, the joint’s visionary dough-thrower, was a purist and not a perfectionist. His was […]
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The enigmatic persona of St. Vincent’s Annie Clark shapes the complicated allure of her music
St. Vincent Tuesday, March 4, 8 p.m. $22–$25 Haw River Ballroom On the cover of St. Vincent’s new self-titled album, the band’s architect, Annie Clark, sits on a mod throne, sporting grey-white hair and a shimmering party dress, looking like a Narnian debutante or the benevolent dictator of a futuristic sky city. Clark’s face adorned […]
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Five Words with Hospitality
Hospitality with Air Waves and The Human Eyes Saturday, Feb. 22 9 p.m., $10–$12 Cat’s Cradle Back Room For their second album, Trouble, the Brooklyn-based rock band Hospitality worked to stop being hospitable. Out this week on Durham’s Merge Records, Trouble remains exceedingly smart and charming, but it’s not quite the light, urbane version of […]
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Pixies and Neutral Milk Hotel arrive this week, hands extended
Pixies with Cults Friday, Jan. 31, 8 p.m. $55.10–$65.80 DPAC Neutral Milk Hotel with Elf Power Saturday–Sunday, Feb. 1–2 sold out Cat’s Cradle To be in the room for a Pixies reunion show in 2004 and remain unmoved required a heart cut from the coldest marble. Onstage were heroes who’d shaped the sound of a […]
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MGMT followed its muse all the way to the bottom of the charts
MGMT with Kuroma Friday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. $36.75–$53.25 DPAC MGMT predestined its current suffering with its first single: The East Coast band’s big, bouncy 2008 smash, “Time to Pretend,” turned two art-rock kids into festival headliners. The songthree jubilant minutes of making plans to blow off the world, forget friends and families, and move […]
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Justin Timberlake is very popular, but has he ever done anything of substance?
Justin Timberlake Wednesday, Nov. 13 8pm at PNC Arena $56.70–$199.90 As the teenage pop rocket of the late ’90s sputtered toward the new millennium, the record industry wanted to keep zooming. But who already among their proven ranks could age well and sell? Who could be counted upon? They were covered with the women; the […]