Indie Rock
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (with Babehoven)
Crescent Ballroom 308 N. 2nd Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United StatesMarquee millennial indie-rock outfit Clap Your Hands Say Yeah visit the Crescent Ballroom to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their critically-acclaimed, self-titled debut album. The band's four-on-the-floor drum-machine beats, noodly synth lines and lead singer Alec Ounsworth's warbly vocals now feel like relics of the Pitchfork Age, but so what? None of us is getting any younger. Babehoven open the show, featuring the sort of moody-sadgirl-indie-mumbling which is doubtless becoming familiar to regular readers of HarperQuest: Nights!
Hinds (with Mamalarky)
The Nile Theater 105 W. Main St., Mesa, AZ, United StatesSpanish sweetie-pie indie-rock duo Hinds, despite a relatively thin discography, made a splash in the mid-2010s with their Euro-pop spin on indie rock; several albums later they're still going strong, forgoing complexity for a messy aesthetic that blends the energy of garage rock forebears like The Sonics with the Casiotone club instrumentation of an Ibiza discotheque.
Austinites Mamalarky perform indie rock with a decidedly chillwave influence; there's more than a hint of Steely Dan to be found here in the instrumentation underlying lead singer Livvy Bennett's fuzzed-out vocals.
Amyl and the Sniffers (with Sheer Mag)
The Van Buren 401 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ, United StatesLoud, brash, arguably tasteless Australian punk-rockers Amyl and the Sniffers bark and shred over four-on-the-floor drumbeats in classic garage band fashion, presided over by outrageous frontwoman Amy "Amyl" Taylor, guaranteed to put on an unforgettable live show. They're supported here by fellow female-fronted garage-revivalists Sheer Mag, who draw from 70s classic rock and early power pop, undergirding the powerful, throaty soprano vocals of lead singer Tina Halladay.
Dummy (with The Sheaves, Evergreen)
Linger Longer Lounge 6522 N 16th St #6, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesLos Angeles indie-pop band Dummy take their name from the celebrated Portishead album and aren't afraid to wear such influences on their sleeve, but they're more than shoegaze revivalists, interpolating psych-rock, glitch music, and vaporwave to create a thoroughly modern pop-rock aesthetic. "Making music shouldn't be fun" has served as the band's long-running mantra, and...
King Hannah (with Veronica Everheart)
Linger Longer Lounge 6522 N 16th St #6, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesEnglish duo King Hannah's wry, singer-songwriter aesthetic evokes contemporaries like Phoebe Bridgers, Courtney Barnett, and Sharon van Etten (a featured collaborator on the band's second album), but their titles and lyrics make clear that they trace their influences to slice-of-life Americana observers like Neil Young and, yes, John Prine. There's a strange menace lurking behind...
La Luz
Valley Bar 130 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZDetails TK
Momma (with Wishy)
Crescent Ballroom 308 N. 2nd Ave., Phoenix, AZ, United StatesWeathers (with Kid Baron)
The Rebel Lounge 2303 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix, AZ, United StatesDetails TK
Rilo Kiley (with Cash & Skye)
The Van Buren 401 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix, AZ, United StatesDetails TK
Khruangbin (with John Carroll Kirby)
Arizona Financial Theatre 400 W. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ, United StatesDetails TK