I Guess I’m Floating and Hot Brown Mess are bringing to town a fantastic show with the Evangelicals and the Holiday Shores. Not only that, but they have hooked us up with a pair of tickets to give to one of our readers. Comment below with your favorite band originating from the mid-west (excluding Evangelicals and the Flaming Lips). We’ll announce a winner on Wednesday. Good luck. More details below…
Glassworks
815 W. Market St. / Louisville
7:30 doors / $7
All ages
EVANGELICALS :::
“The Evening Descends is bursting with balcony-pitched histrionics, molten Brian May leads, and standing-ovation-worthy crashes. But what really makes this album special is the ways in which the Evangelicals pull off big-stage spectacle on what still sounds like a public-access cable-show budget. More than their shared zip code and mutual affinity for lysergic pop songs, it’s this thrifty ideology that most closely relates Evangelicals to the Flaming Lips– specifically the anarchic mid-80s incarnation that proved a few well-utilized Christmas lights and fog machines can make a bar band look like Pink Floyd.” – Pitchfork (Best New Music, 8.3)
“Many folks are quick to point out that Evangelicals hail from Norman, Oklahoma, the same hood as another epic psych-rock outfit, The Flaming Lips. However, after all the video game sound effects, dubbed conversations and other b-side space-flick accoutrements, even Wayne Coyne would likely be found with mouth agape. Since its release, Evening Descends has gotten nothing but extreme reviews, both positive and negative. At a time when musicians are experimenting with noise in both its volume and density, Evangelicals have found a way to push the envelope yet still attract listeners who normally lean towards the brighter side of psychedelic music. With guitars as fuzzy as Friday night beer goggles; tons of arpeggios, cadences, and found sounds; and vocals reminiscent of a tamer Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), Evangelicals definitely deserve a “Most Original” Award.” – KEXP Blog
HOLIDAY SHORES :::
“Columbus’d The Whim is the first first full-length album from Pemberton’s Holiday Shores, who, like the street that bears their name, are quintessentially summer: chimey guitars, reverb-soaked vocals, warbling Rhodes, echoes of years past.
The album, packed with 10 could-be singles, reads like a book of Pemberton’s well-written memories. Each word chosen meaningfully with a linguist’s touch; each sentence constructed carefully with an artist’s ear. Columbus’d The Whim is a literary work in addition to a sonic one.” – Two Syllables
Holiday Shores- Phones Don’t Feud
Tags: evangelicals, glassworks, Holiday Shores, Hot Brown Mess, I Guess I'm Floating, Kentucky, Louisville
black keys.. just recently started listening to them and i like their album produced by dangermouse
also… i saw the evangelicals play in lexington at a skateboard shop about 2 years ago. they were touring with Headlights. there were like 12 people in attendance and 5 of them were from Headlights. the show was in the back of the shop which was basically an unfinished basement with an old pacman machine and overhead lightbulbs with pull-chains. when the evangelicals played there were kids skating on a homemade mini-halfpipe 5 feet to the side of them. before they played their last song, skeleton man, the power blew and they finished the set acoustically.
it was pretty memorable
I don’t know if Texas would be considered midwest or south, but I’d have to go with Spoon. Otherwise it’d be Maps & Atlases from Chicago.
I just wanted to comment and say the band names I Guess I’m Floating and Hot Brown Mess are ironically hilarious if connected by the word ‘a’
okay, on second thought, disgusting is a much more fitting word