- UK producer Andy Stott makes dubbed-out techno with a brooding sensuality.
MONDAY, JAN 26: ANDY STOTT
9 pm at Neumos
The idea of Andy Stott headlining Neumos would’ve seemed inconceivable four years ago. In 2011, he dropped two powerful EPs—Passed Me By and We Stay Together—that engulfed clubs in a shroud of molasses-y, dubbed-out techno. Crossover potential? No. But with 2012’s Luxury Problems and last year’s Faith in Strangers, the UK producer introduced beautiful female vocals and less caustic textures, muting the paranoia while increasing the abstract breakbeats and melodic sweetness. The music has brightened, but its essential brooding sensuality remains. With Kowton and Raica.
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TUESDAY, JAN 27: MOVABLE TYPE: A LITERARY MIXER
7:30 pm at the Hideout
This is an intervention. You need to leave your apartment. Put on some pants, set the peanut butter jar down—I know it’s tough, but you can do it—and head to the Movable Type Literary Mixer. It’s time to meet some new people. Bring the book you’re reading and buy a drink. Tell people what you think about the book you’re reading. Ask them about their book. See? You’ve left the house, talked to strangers, and maybe made a friend or two. That wasn’t so hard, was it?
Looking for more things to do on Tuesday? Go here.
WEDNESDAY, JAN 28: THE YAMS COLLECTIVE
7 pm at Town Hall
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? is an international art collective whose cinematic “Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera” focuses on the central question of “What happens to the black body when it is haunted by a ‘blackness’ outside of it?” A panel discussion with members of the collective follows the screening.
- A still from Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera.
Tons more things to do on Wednesday right here.
THURSDAY, JAN 29: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN DANCE PARTY
8 pm at Vermillion
Glasgow’s feelings-pop purveyors, Belle and Sebastian, gently released a new album on January 19 called Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance. Though I wouldn’t say we’re in “peacetime” at the moment, I can bet that girls and boys in cardigans, plaids, and berets want to dance (and, at times, not dance) to Belle and Sebastian’s emotionally literate discography at this dance party. The press release promised the DJ would be “starting with general good stuff and ending with the danceable stuff.” And you’re in luck, the latest album is arguably the most danceable to date. Bring your best friend, if she wants you.
All of Thursday’s events here.
FRIDAY, JAN 30: BILL ORCUTT
9 pm at Machine House Brewery
Where do you go after leaving a band like Harry Pussy, one of the noisiest, most chaotic/cathartic rock bands America ever produced? HP guitarist Bill Orcutt decided to opt for an acoustic-based approach that swaps out traumatizing feedback for a more nuanced,knotty folk-blues style that’s practically no-wave-ish in its angularity and prickliness. His exhilarating music tweaks tradition with a surly and speedy iconoclasm. Tonight, he performs on a bill with fellow guitar antiheroes Bill Horist and Sean Curley.
Lots more Friday happenings here.