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WEDNESDAY 10/29

BOB MOSES’S EROTIC-CITY HOUSE TUNES

At first I thought, why is a 66-year-old jazz drummer playing a show at Barboza? But it turns out that Bob Moses is not the guy who kept time with luminaries like Larry Coryell, Gary Burton, Jack DeJohnette’s Compost, and Tisziji Muรฑoz, but rather a young Canadian electronic duo. You’d think these cats would be SEO-savvy enough not to nick the name of a respected musical figure. Anyway, maple-leaf Bob Moses create “Music that will make you want to build a highway through a low-income neighborhood,” according to their SoundCloud bio. Funny, but it’s more accurate to say that Bob Moses won’t wreck your ‘hood’s integrity as much as they’ll set a sultry, smooth mood for you and your significant other to create erotic friction. Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance’s understated croons glide over slow- and mid-tempo house rhythms in a manner that should please fans of Matthew Dear and Junior Boys. With Jus Moni and Luxe Canyon. Barboza, 8 pm, $12 adv, 21+…

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Dave Segal is a journalist and DJ living in Seattle. He has been writing about music since 1983. His stuff has appeared in Gale Research’s literary criticism series of reference books, Creem (when...