Tonight Tonight in Music
posted by on January 29 at 12:16 PM
Liars, No Age, Past Lives
(Showbox at the Market) While Liars and No Age are the obvious draws for tonight’s show, local art-punk aficionados will want to show up early for the debut of Past Lives, the new project from former Blood Brothers Jordan Blilie, Morgan Henderson, Mark Gajadhar, and original guitarist Devin Welch. Further up the bill, L.A. duo No Age return to Seattle on the heels of a breakout year in 2007. The band’s debut, Weirdo Rippers, was a chaotic mix of punk fits and lo-fi drones, but for such an unevenly charged record, it was surprisingly not divisive, landing them a deal with little-known local label Sub Pop, not to mention an impressive spread in that old punk-rock bible the New Yorker. Liars, in 2007, released their (relatively) straightforward fourth album, Liars, which tempered their spacious noisescapes with fried heavy rock, unexpected breakbeats, and even some unsettlingly displaced surf pop. It was a good year for them, too. ERIC GRANDY
Even with Angus severely immobilized from a strained back or something, Liars killed it.
No Age and Past Lives were really good too.
Liars were awesome. Past Lives need to write more, but they already have some amazing stuff happening.
No Age, however... WTF? Why is this band so highly regarded? #12 on Pitchfork's Top 50 of 2007? Signed to Sup Pop? They have a cool name, hit on all the right cred points, paid their dues in the right places and play with all the right bands, but at the end of the day there's nothing there. Am I the only one who thinks they are way overrated?
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