Glasslands Gallery

oOoOO + Selebrities + Dark Sister

Alternative rock, Indie rock

The musical entity known as oOoOO is Chris Dexter, a Bay Area producer who makes "witch house," a blend of hip-hop, creeped-out electronica and experimental noise. Dexter's fare is probably too slow for dancing, but it's just right for a hallucinogenic...

Math the Band + What Cheer? Brigade + Cherie Lily + .357 Lover

Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop

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This surely looks like a fun bill: In the headline slot, coed duo Math the Band soups up its rowdy emo-punk with a caffeinated electropop engine—imagine a goofier, more unhinged Matt and Kim. Warming up the stage you have punk-steeped marching band the...

The Denzels + Neighbors

Indie rock

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The Denzels do their crisp, hooky, reverbed-out thing in the ’Burg. The local indie-pop trio isn't out to break any new ground, but it sounds mighty comfy in its chosen niche.

Kuroma + Fort Lean

Categories, Music

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Hank Sullivant (the Whigs, MGMT's tour guitarist) heads up Kuroma, tonight airing the sounds of its third album, Kuromaroma, produced by MGMT's Ben Goldwasser. Strong support comes from Fort Lean, which traffics in rapturous garage rock, born for dive-bar...

The Field

Nightlife

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The Field (Axel Willner) creates a sample-and-loop-based cottony-techno sound that's both minimalist and spacious—and gorgeous, to boot, as witnessed most recently on 2011's Looping State of Mind, released on Berlin's mighty Kompakt label. Standish/Carlyon...

Groundislava + Fur + Time Wharp

Nightlife

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Last year's Ground Is Lava, the debut released from the L.A. beatsmith and member of the Wedidit Collective known as Groundislava, was imbued with glimmering sounds, lightly abstracted rhythms…and actual songwriting. Imagine that! The slightly disorienting,...

Charli XCX + Little Daylight

Pop

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Charli XCX's meteoric rise is due in no small part to Pitchfork, which has championed the 20-year-old London songstress from the get-go. And we've got to admit that the lady's dark, bouncy electropop is pretty irresistible. Onstage she exudes untortured...

Soon-to-Be-Innocent Fun: Moon Boots + Speakerbot + Heathered Pearls

Nightlife

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This monthly get-together of underground electronics, helmed by the Moodgadget label's Heathered Pearls, is back at Glasslands. The star of tonight's show is the somewhat mysterious Moon Boots, a great producer with a handful of excellent sunshine-boogie...

A Tribe Called Red

Nightlife

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently described the music of the Ottawa DJ collective A Tribe Called Red as "a dubstep take on powwow music"—and while we're not sure about the political correctness of that characterization, the First Nation crew...

Holly Miranda + Timmy Mislock + William Carl Jr. + Joseph Reuben

Indie rock, Rock & roll

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Stirring L.A. singer-songwriter Holly Miranda backs her soaring, pure voice with warm, fuzzy washes of sound—as you can hear on her Dave Sitek–produced debut album, The Magician's Private Library, and she's toured with the xx and Florence and the Machine....

Jon Hopkins + SFV Acid + Octo Octa

Nightlife

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Electronic-music artist Jon Hopkins's highly anticipated new album, Immunity, comes out on the Domino label today—so it's fitting that tonight the talented artist plays his first-ever headlining gig in Gotham. It's a great album, dramatically textured...

The Secret History + French Films + Hints

Indie rock

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The Secret History swaggers and shouts triumphantly through the trenches of Michael Grace Jr.’s lifelong war against silence. Live, watch as singer Lisa Ronson’s gravitas focuses the band’s tunes into bona fide anthems. Kip Berman of the Pains of Being...

American Royalty + Vows + Bird Call

Alternative rock, Electronica, Rock & roll

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American Royalty marries catchy blues-rock with clubby electronic beats—an improbable blend that actually works, and is sure to be bolstered by the L.A. band's fiery live show.