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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Tonight! Tonight in Music: Fin De Cinema's Blow Up, The Raveonettes, The Ventures and much more!

Posted by Arian Jalali on Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:51 PM

FIN DE CINEMA'S BLOW-UP: MONARQUES, THE RESERVATIONS, ROCKY AND THE PROMS
(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) Take a multi-pronged approach to entertainment with Holocene's Fin de Cinema: You'll get a film (Antonioni's cult hit Blow-Up) set to music (the Monarques and others perform a live score) with fashion (not only is the film iconic for its costuming, attendees are encouraged to dress in their finest mod attire). MARJORIE SKINNER

THE RAVEONETTES, TAMARYN
(Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) Read our article on the Raveonettes.


THE VENTURES
(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) Hailing from Tacoma, the Ventures and their fuzzy, instrumental garage tunes (including "Walk, Don't Run," "Hawaii Five-0" and a crazy number of surf rock hits) have been inspiring a poop-ton of great bands and artists since 1958. Go, and tip your hat to the masters! WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY

PETER BJORN AND JOHN, BACHELORETTE
(Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Yo, where my young folks at? A few years have passed since Peter Bjorn and John whistled their way to the top of the charts with the lovely Victoria Bergsman hook and cavity-inducing melody of "Young Folks." Following the distraction that was Living Thing, PB&J resurfaces with the cheerful Gimme Some, their closest effort to breakthrough recording Writer's Block. Swedophiles can breathe easy: There are some genuine moments of pure immaculate pop music on Gimme Some, and only a few lackadaisical lapses to mar the band's simplified sound. Joining PB&J will be the underappreciated sounds of Bachelorette, the visionary work of New Zealander Annabel Alpers. Her moody new self-titled release (out May 17) is bedroom pop at its finest, a vocal-rich collection of heartfelt songs that barely climb above a dulcet whisper. EZRA ACE CARAEFF

OF MONTREAL, PAINTED PALMS
(Roseland, 8 NW 6th) Just four short years ago, Kevin Barnes really seemed to be onto something. With the densely woven pansexual opera/freakout Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Barnes built on his band Of Montreal's previous seven albums with a kaleidoscope of glam pop that stuck out like a day-glo thumb in the otherwise muted color palette of indie rock. Of Montreal quickly evolved a must-see live band, with a mindfucking stage show that took primitive community-theater production values to grotesque extremes. That live show overshadowed Of Montreal's unfortunate follow-up record Skeletal Lamping, an inscrutable and hard-to-listen-to collection of ADD song snippets. Barnes' latest recorded effort, False Priest, corrects the scales somewhat, with funkless but coherent disco numbers that slightly dampen what made Fauna such an attention-grabbing breakout. So where does that leave us? With a boring but unconventional album and a bound-to-be-fuckin'-weird live spectacle—more than most bands offer, really. NED LANNAMANN

 

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