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This page is a Daily Archive of entries for Thursday, May 8, 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
The folks at the Canopy Club love local music. And so do we.
Tonight the Canopy will host an evening of local performances, dubbed "A Tribute to Local Bands." The schedule features nearly everyone that can play an instrument in town — and their mothers. (Well, maybe not moms, though given the weekend it wouldn't be a bad idea.) If you can't find something in this lineup to appeal to your ears, well, you just aren't listening. So away we go with the enormous roster.
To compare M83’s proprietor Anthony Gonzalez to Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine is perhaps old hat, but what’s now the most remarkable aspect of this comparison is how Gonzalez continues to nurture Shields’s influence while still creating interesting, progressive music. Shimmering, shoegazey electronic music it’s not, exactly; on Saturdays=Youth M83 sounds more like the New Wave reborn, as Gonzalez seems to channel Tears For Fears (pick any song from the Donnie Darko soundtrack, really) more than anything else. While this might seem the classic case of trying to fix something that isn’t broken (the band’s 2003 Dead Seas, Red Cities, and Lost Ghosts is brilliant in every sense of the word), Gonzalez has still managed to corral a sharp, spacious musical texture with that distinctive ring of fresh influence.
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