Tonight Tonight in Music
posted by on January 31 at 10:33 AM
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+.) by Eric Grandy
And from this week’s Score column:
VAUGHN & OWCHARUK
Pianist Eric Vaughn brings his energetic touch to a showcase for the Seattle-based Broken Time label. In addition, Michael Owcharuk leads an adventurous chamber-jazz sextet that features Jim Knodle (trumpet) and Beth Fleenor (clarinet). Jazz Alley, 2033 Sixth Ave, 441-9729, 7:30 pm, $10/$18.50.
The Black Mountain/Howlin' Rain show is sold out, unfortunately. I tried to get tickets yesterday at Moe and none were available. I saw some "tickets wanted" posts on craigslist but didn't see any for sale.
MGMT was definitely the best act of the night.
I beg to differ, @2. Yeasayer was AMAAAAZING, beyond amazing. And I headbanged with Howlin Rain through the entirety of Black Mountain. MGMT actually... *gasp* bored me.
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