White Magic is playing Nectar with Johanna Kunin and PWRFL Power. Jonathan Zwickel wrote about the headliners in this week’s issue. Here’s an excerpt:

There’s a tradition of trance music—qawwali, raga, didgeridoo, techno—that spans ages and continents; White Magic sound nothing like that. Take “Poor Harold,” a highlight from Dark Stars. It builds from a simple piano refrain that’s repeated over and over, faster and faster, accented by Billotte’s main foil Doug Shaw on brushed, counterbeaten drums. “Poor Harold works all night/works in the graveyard right next to my school/Digging graves, digging graves,” Billotte sings, and disembodied voices float in the background as dublike, wordless apparitions. It accelerates into a cyclic peak, then the song returns to its original piano refrain. Its simplicity is its magnetism, its repetition its drama. And that voice…

And! You can hear Joahanna Kunin on this week’s Setlist. Read Zwickel’s White Magic piece here.

Also tonight:

Band of Horses, the Drones, Tyler Ramsey
(Showbox at the Market) It’s a bummer when you constantly hear how much better shit used to be before you got there. Seattle was so much cheaper and the kids so much cooler and Kurt Cobain was always there to give you a friendly grunt when he fixed you a perfect latte at the one Starbucks in the universe. But that’s all done now. Just like Band of Horses—they used to kick ass, before they moved back to Bumfuck and became popular and recorded a lukewarm second album and sold their soul to Wal-Mart. You know what? Fuck that. Ten months into being here, I can tell you that Seattle is thriving; with one BOH show under my belt, I can say that the band indeed kick ass. Deny it all you want, but just because you’ve gotten old and bitter doesn’t mean the rest of the world sucks with you. JONATHAN ZWICKEL