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Concert Fri Aug 18 2006
If You Feel Like Dancing...
What are you still doing home? Haven't you heard? There's a show tonight. Chicagoan Chris Mills brings his seventeen piece band The City That Works to The Subterranean tonight and word is, they put on a phenomenal show. The real treat, though, may be the opening act.
Brooklyn's Bishop Allen has been getting a good deal of pub lately for its ballsy 2006 release strategy. Each month, they've self-released another mail order four song EP. That's 28 tracks so far of good-natured, optimistic indie pop. The EPs have created a steadily growing fan-base, all waiting by the mailbox to see what's next. A loving tribute to a Civil War ship? Check. Moody Arcade Fire-esque anthem? Check. Even when the band's original songwriting chops lag a bit, they manage clever classic rock knockoffs like March's "The History of Excuses" (via the Stones "Street Fighting Man") or February's "Vain" (via Boston's "More Than a Feeling.") Check 'em out at the Subterranean at 10 pm tonight (Friday) and get your fill of warbly gang vocals, cheerful handclaps, and playful singalongs. More on Bishop Allen in this NPR piece from 2003.