Saturday, February 11, 2012
Tonight Tonight in Music: Mux Mool, Danny Corn, Ghost Feet, DJAO, Hooker, Tower of Power, Brad Paisley, The Band Perry, Scotty McCreery, Atrocity Exhibition, Perpetual Ritual, Red Liquid, Crimewave, Seapony, Dido & Anea
Posted by Mike Ramos on Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Mux Mool, Danny Corn, Ghost Feet, DJAO, Hooker
(Chop Suey) See Data Breaker.
Tower of Power
(Jazz Alley) See Thursday.
Brad Paisley, the Band Perry, Scotty McCreery
(Tacoma Dome) There are a few things that will forever retain the ability to make me cry. Dolly Parton's dead-dog anthem "Cracker Jack." Cloris Leachman's performance in the final scene of The Last Picture Show. And a handful of moments scattered across Brad Paisley's 2009 album American Saturday Night. Part of it is where I'm from: Having grown up in emotionally stoic West Texas, I respond to openhearted displays of emotion by good ol' straight boys with almost instantaneous mistiness. When such displays are paired with the wit and concision found in the best of Paisley's songs—American Saturday Night's pro-melting-pot title track, pro-progress anthem "Welcome to the Future," and lifelong love song "Then" (all of which flirt openly with mawkishness and win)—I become nothing but liquid. Bring Kleenex. DAVID SCHMADER
Atrocity Exhibition, Perpetual Ritual, Red Liquid, Crimewave
(Highline) Seattle's Perpetual Ritual (Mitchell Saulsberry with a rotating cast of players) compose a sort of murky, droney noise folk that's one of the best takes on the age-old genre in recent memory. Red Liquid's self-described "Nick Cave meets the Swans doing futuristic murder ballads" is a thing to keep an ear on. Atrocity Exhibition take their name from either "an experimental collection of 'condensed novels' by British writer J. G. Ballard" or the Joy Division song, take your pick. GRANT BRISSEY
Seapony
(Wildrose) KEXP ass-kicker Sharlese Metcalf is thankfully keeping the Wildrose punk-show dream alive with the monthly night Brush Off. This evening includes dream poppers Seapony, whose live sets may enchant you, even if you don't like their songs on record. This will be a dance party with guitars (the best kind). GRANT BRISSEY
Theatre of Early Music: Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
(Town Hall) Booziness, boats, a sorceress, a coven of witches, the queen of Carthage, a Trojan refugee, and tragic love: It's amazing this baroque opera doesn't get performed more often. It even has a popular aria, "Dido's Lament," sometimes used on movie and TV scores. It will be a rare treat to hear it by this renowned Canadian group led by countertenor Daniel Taylor. JEN GRAVES
White Coward, Mtns, Haunted Horses, Stephanie
(Seasick Halfshell Embassy) All of these DIY local bands playing a DIY Capitol Hill house show is sure to be a righteous all-ages time. White Coward kick out loud, spastic, multidirectional guitar-rock numbers anchored by pummeling drums. Mtns (or MOUNTAINSS) are equally noisy and experimental—a saxophone is even involved here—but add in some slower, heavier drone elements to certain songs to keep you guessing. Haunted Horses, who released compelling four-song EP They Set Us Fevered Water in January, push even further into spaced-out electronic noise but stay rooted in the same punk direction as the other bands here. Stephanie's happily disquieting indie pop should lighten the mood and round out the bill quite nicely. MIKE RAMOS
See also Underage.
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