WEDNESDAY 3/4
DANCE TO MATH PHD CARIBOU'S PRIME NUMBERS
In an almost 10-year-old interview I conducted with him in The Stranger, Caribou (aka Canadian math PhD Dan Snaith) said, "I don't consciously try to change things each time, but I make music primarily to challenge myself and if I kept going over the same ground, I wouldn't remain interested for very long. I think that [my particular] melodic sensibility... is what ties the albums together, but in reality that's probably wishful thinking." Snaith has pretty much kept to his word in the ensuing decade. The euphoric psych rock of Up in Flames and the kosmische Autobahn trance-outs of The Milk of Human Kindness are way back in the rearview mirror. The evolution from 2007's Andorra to 2010's Swim to last year's Our Love has been gradual and culminated in a kind of blissful, emotionally resonant dance music that glides in the general vicinity of Hot Chip, !!!, and Junior Boys. Snaith told Trent Moorman in a recent story in these pages that he wanted Our Love to be simpler and more direct, but I think Caribou excels when he's generating dense, cyclonic layers of guitars, keyboards, and fey vocals over his club-friendly beats. See Swim for the apotheosis of this style. Whatever the case, Caribou live overflows with transcendent, feel-good vibes. I recall one show during the Milk tour that verged on Boredoms-level magic. With Koreless. Showbox at the Market, 7:30 and 11 pm, $22–$27, all ages.
SUNDAY 3/8
LUST STRENGTH GIVES YOU RHYTHM & BRUISE WITH MOOD ORGAN, NICK BARTOLETTI, AND OTHERS
Helmed by Chris Blohm and Nick Bartoletti, Lust Strength has been keeping second Sundays at Kremwerk noisy and sinister for a while now. (It's the yin to False Prophet's yang—the latter being another Kremwerk monthly event run by Sharlese and Kate that tilts toward the dark side.) Headlining this edition is Mood Organ, the multifaceted musician Timm Mason. Besides holding down guitar and bass for avant-rock groups Midday Veil and Master Musicians of Bukkake and synth in the TJ Max duo, Mason records and performs meticulous and maleficent synthesizer pieces as Mood Organ. His latest release on MOTOR, the Outer Heaven EP, evokes dungeon-disco and giallo-soundtrack atmospheres that'll appeal to fans of Goblin and Fabio Frizzi. Bartoletti's recent live sets have found him indulging in his nastiest noise-music proclivities, to devastating and artful effect. (Speaking of art, Bartoletti also provides modular video for Lust Strength.) Blohm is a selector with a keen ear for the malevolent and macabre in electronic music. Come and get your quota of rhythm & bruise. With Beautiful Horse and DJ Veins. Kremwerk, 8 pm, free, 21+. 
