Cut Copy hail from Melbourne and the current tour ends in Paris at the Pitchfork Festival in the City Lights after numerous October dates in the USA or at least that is the last date currently scheduled. Find out more on current dates HERE.
Who says indie rock and dance music cannot mix? Who sayeth never the twain shall meet? Probably no one really but if anyone were to so blaspheme they would be proven abruptly wrong at a Cut Copy show. The band are heavy on the dance but they mix in the indie rock quite nicely as well. There is instrumentation in the midst of all the electronics and they are never lost, never missing in the mix. Australians seem to be taking the lead in this genre of dance music that rocks a little and more power to them. Make no mistake, however, this is much more dance music than anything else. It never gets repetitive or dull or loses energy or bases that energy on something recorded months ago. The live performance provides the energy. I have seen some dance bands whose performance is about hired on guys playing in the background (and wardrobe...yawwwn). No worries about that being the case with Cut Copy. You may even notice an ACOUSTIC guitar in the photos. Cut Copy’s third, and probably most ambitious record, Zonoscope, came out in early 2011. The band made a name for themselves with 2008’s In Ghost Colours (or Colors for those of us not in the Commonwealth). The band also tour like crazy. This is their third trip to Chicago, including a date at Pitchfork 2011. Cut Copy hail from Melbourne and the current tour ends in Paris at the Pitchfork Festival in the City Lights after numerous October dates in the USA or at least that is the last date currently scheduled. Find out more on current dates HERE. I turned around and there were FANS there...amazing... Opening Act Washed Up
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Caveman are a...man..I have a hard time describing them, not because they are so oddball or out there but because all the descriptions and genres sort of mean nothing these days. I could say "low-fi" because they have that vaguely noisy, almost ambient tinge that some bands who "did battle" under that moniker had. They could also be called "indie rock" but that has never really meant anything when it comes to sound has it? So I suppose I will call it melodic indie lo-fi. From now on, that is what I am doing, making up fake genres. Wait..I do that already. You can find out what the band sounds like on your own when they physically release CoCo Beware on November 15, 2011 (September 13 digitally). You can also check out a track below. Caveman's Old Friend Caveman lost their drummer before this gig. They did not misplace him. He had to head to the hospital for some reason. I am betting no one would have know, they brought in someone else from NYC and had The War On Drugs drummer sit in on the last several songs. It isn't an accident that that is when the set really took off. The last two songs might have been the evening's highlight. OK so I do actually SHOOT photos at places OTHER than Schubas. It just seems to work out that bands I shoot seem to always PLAY there. I am not complaining. Schubas is a pretty good place to see, and hear, a show. It is not always the most fun place to try to take photos, Other people seem to get decent shots. I wonder what the problem is? Hmmm. Opener to the opener, Tammar...
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