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(09/20/15 11:26pm)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based experimental post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be performing at the Bluebird (216 North Walnut) on Monday, Sept. 21. The group, active since 1993 with a lengthy hiatus from 2003 until 2010, is hot off the release of their critically acclaimed album Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress, issued earlier this year on the Canadian post-rock mainstay Constellation Records.
While fairly active since their triumphant return to full time touring in 2012 with the release of Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, GY!BE mastermind Efrim Menuck and a rotating cast of musicians have yet to play Bloomington, making this show one of the most anticipated of this year for indie enthusiasts. The band’s dark instrumental crescendos and long, patient songs, not unalike from post-rock heroes Explosions in the Sky or MONO, have helped curate a cult following that worships the genre-defining body of work, which extends into the hip collegiate concert-goers of Bloomington.
Joining Godspeed You! Black Emperor on this national tour is Xylouris White, an internationally-based lute and percussion duo. They blur the lines between pop and world music using instruments most people would only see at the Lotus Festival. On this year’s Goats, their only album thus far, Xylouris White wish to take listeners all over the world and back home again, making the duo a welcome addition to what is already an impassioned and eclectic show.
Tickets are $25 at the door and the show is 21+.
(09/23/14 4:09pm)
Two of the contemporary punk scene’s most compelling live bands are hitting the Midwest together for a tour full of sad feelings and heavy drinking. The Menzingers will be headlining at The Bishop (123 S. Walnut) on September 24, with emo titans Tiny Moving Parts warming up the crowd. The show will begin at 9:30 p.m. with doors opening at 8:30 p.m., and sorry kids, but this one is 18+.
Tiny Moving Parts are out on the road with The Menzingers and are acting as the little brother tagging along, except they’re a critically acclaimed emo band and their big bro is one of the most exciting punk bands in the nation. Tiny Moving Parts, composed of brothers Billy and Matt Chevalier, and their cousin Dylan Mattheisen, are one of the tightest performing bands touring today. The three have been playing together most of their lives, and it translates to their live shows. Their sophomore release, Pleasant Living, was put out earlier this month on Triple Crown Records and features a little less frantic yelling and a little more warm, inviting singing from the same three goofballs you got to know on 2013’s This Couch Is Long and Full of Friendship.
Philadelphia’s The Menzingers, hot off their latest album Rented World, perform a catchy brand of storytelling punk rock soaked in beer and surrounded with friends. The choruses are infectiously tenacious, the verses are brilliantly descriptive, and chords and riffs stick like glue. Their sophomore effort On the Impossible Past landing on more year-end lists than most people can count. With multiple albums out on punk powerhouse Epitaph Records, The Menzingers are upping the ante with each release, consistently maturing and improving as songwriters and musicians.
Both groups have been active in the same circles, with independent appearances at Bled Fest and Riot Fest Chicago still lingering in mind. It isn’t every day that two of the most talented punk bands come through town, and especially less frequent where they portray the upward momentum possessed by these two bands. Stage dive hard because this will be one of the best shows of the year.
(04/30/14 12:59am)
On Monday, May 5th, singer-songwriter Angel Olsen will be gracing The Bishop bar (123 S. Walnut) with her presence for a performance, with doors for the 18+ show opening at 9 p.m. and the show starting soon thereafter. This will be her first time visiting Bloomington since the release of her latest album Burn Your Fire for No Witness this past February, which was received with widespread critical acclaim. Olsen, notable for her dynamic voice and broad range, spent the past year in Chicago perfecting her lo-fi brand of indie-folk with Cap’n Jazz’s Tim Kinsella. The St. Louis born singer then applied those, mixed with a twist of alternative country influence, to her newest album, serving as both her full band premiere as well as her debut with Jagjaguwar Records, a Bloomington-based label with an extensive roster of indie rock artists. Olsen's first album, Half Way Home, was released in 2012 on Bathetic Records to similar positive acclaim. A former collaborator with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Olsen's powerful voice and captivating showmanship will make this a show not to be missed.
Olsen’s appearance at The Bishop also includes the Nashville-based country rock group Promised Land Sound and the prolific Indiana singer-songwriter Joseph O’Connell performing as Elephant Micah. Promised Land Sound released a self-titled debut LP in September 2013. Elephant Micah, a project O'Connell started in 2000, released its 13th album, Louder than Thou, in 2012. Both albums were released by North Carolina label Paradise of Bachelors and support the newer alternative country approach Olsen has taken in her songwriting.
(02/19/14 2:26am)
Two Nashville bands have teamed up to cross the country in a flurry of heavy guitar-driven garage rock. On Feb. 21, near the end of their co-headlining trek, the two will stop for a night of music at The Bishop (123 S. Walnut St.), with doors opening at 11 p.m. and the show starting around midnight.
Those Darlins released their third record Blur the Lines on last October to positive reviews. The gritty quartet started in 2006 and have been turning heads in the Nashville and regional scene ever since. Moving from alt-country influences to a more garage rock sound, Those Darlins have gone against the grain for native Nashville groups and paved their own path, aesthetically and sonically. Associating with the Infinity Cat Records band Heavy Cream and working with Infinity Cat’s resident producer, Robert Moutenot, they’ve found a nice hole for themselves in the scene.
Hot off the heels of their critically acclaimed album I’m Rich beyond Your Wildest Dreams, Diarrhea Planet have been riding a wave of success saturated in a sick four guitar shredfest. Signed to JEFF The Brotherhood’s Infinity Cat Records, they’re the hyperbolic representation of the Nashville punk scene, crossed with bar culture, and blended with dirty clothes and caffeine. Diarrhea Planet is a band that never slows down and is fun from beginning to end, with song titles like “Ghost With A Boner” and “White Girls,” this band is one that should never ever in a million years be missed when they come through your hometown.
Both bands are highly regarded for their energetic live shows, making this one of the most exciting touring shows coming to Bloomington this winter. Rest assured, stage dives and high fives will run rampant at this midnight romp through an electric garage. Diarrhea Planet and Those Darlins also both have fresh material coming from critically acclaimed albums, making this show not one to miss.