A rock and roll alternative to WILD
PRESS PHOTOCursive with The Blood Brothers and Eastern Youth
When: Tonight, October 3
Where: Mississippi Nights, 914 N. First Street
Admission: $12 availble through Metrotix, $1 for minor surcharge
Doors open at 7 p.m., show starts at 7:30 p.m.
All ages welcome.
Do you see enough of your fellow University students that the thought of spending your Friday night drunk with a few thousand of them makes you sicker than a 90- pound girl after a six-pack of Smirnoff Ice? If the answer is yes, then tonight’s show at Mississippi Nights, featuring the prominent indie rock bands Cursive and the Blood Brothers, is the perfect alternative.
The headliners, Cursive, play an innovative mix of post-punk and classical chamber music-twin jagged guitars interlocking with cello to create a sound both brutal and beautiful. The band hails from Omaha, currently undergoing an underground music renaissance due to the Saddle Creek scene, which has also spawned new-wave dance band the Faint and critical darling Conor Oberst, also known as Bright Eyes. Cursive’s album “The Ugly Organ” received almost unanimous critical praise for its blend of musical innovation and lyrical introspection.
The real scene-stealers of this show, though, will be the Blood Brothers. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, these young spazzes have a sound that is nearly impossible to describe. Rather than playing within any certain genre, they take bits of nearly every underground musical subculture-punk, hardcore, math-rock, new wave, noise, metal, and garage rock-and throw them in a blender, drinking in the results with a healthy dose of methamphetamines. Guitar, bass and drums switch time signatures and dynamics on a dime while dueling vocalists scream, croon, and sing stream-of-consciousness lyrics that only make sense in the context of the music. In the end, the Blood Brothers produce a sound that is incredibly abrasive but also strangely catchy. Their music isn’t for everyone, but for those with an open mind, their live show promises to be even more fiery than their major label debut, “Burn, Piano Island, Burn.”
Also opening are Eastern Youth.
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