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 […]
Jeff Klingman
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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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Pixies and Neutral Milk Hotel arrive this week, hands extended
Pixies with Cults Friday, Jan. 31, 8 p.m. $55.10–$65.80 DPAC
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 […]
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?


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