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MGMT, Black Mountain, Yeasayer, Howlin' Rain at Neumo's
Tonight's show offers a dizzying (and bicoastal) array of psychoactive rock. Representing the West Coast are Black Mountain (Vancouver, BC) and Howlin' Rain (San Francisco); from back East come Brooklyn bands Yeasayer and MGMT. Black Mountain deals in druggy classic-rock dirges, Yeasayer in oddly hopeful millennial gospel. But most exciting is MGMT, a young duo who met at Wesleyan College. Their tripping ranges from liberal-arts-school noise jams to poppy, polished psych-funk to bleary-eyed ante meridiem folk. (Neumo's, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $12, 21+.)
ERIC GRANDY
not to be a nitpicky douche, but it's actually Wesleyan University. Wesleyan College is an all girls school somewhere in the midwest; Wesleyan University is in Connecticut.
I'm fucking excited for this show. That's right... FUCKING excited. I hear it's sold out, too.
MGMT sounds like a jack of all genres but master of none.
Is their name actually MGMT? or is it something like "management" or "mig mit"? These stupid acronyms drive me crazy.
I don't know. I'm not going for MGMT, I'm going for Black Mountain... and peripherally for Howlin' Rain.
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