The preeminent psychobilly bandleader returns to the valley with blues-funk revivalist Black Joe Lewis, featuring mariachi-punk outfit Piñata Protest. A variety of goofy, punk-inflected roots music for the whole (Harper) family.
Shaggy Miami alt-funk collective Magic City Hippies merge the sensibilities of funk and indie rock, with a soupcon of smooth R&B, acid jazz, hip-hop lyricism, and the sample-driven eclecticism of early Beck. Intentionally genre-bending, the band in many ways resembles the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but much less irritating; and, above all, is just trying to groove.
LCD Soundsystem and Justice headline the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, with supporting acts including Alvvays, Slow Pulp, Confidence Man, Summer Salt, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
Sir Woman's bouncy bedroom pop rests on a foundation of synths and drum machines and borrows more liberally from funk, soul, R&B, and disco than her sadgirl peers, with a sound closer to smoothcore, ready-for-NPR contemporaries like Lake Street Dive and easy-listening forebears like Hall and Oates.
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