Purse your lips against a pumpkin spice latte in anticipation of these truly enjoyable shows happening in town. Many of these shows are cultural throwbacks of the most satisfying variety, including everyone’s favorite rock-star-turned-TV-doctor-turned-butt-weapon, a Bowied-out riot angel of pop-doom, and Tacocat bassist Bree McKenna’s biological father on tour. For other events to fill the seasonal darkness in your heart, go to our music calendar.
SEPTEMBER 26
Cass McCombs with Hush Arbors
Oh, Cass. What is your deal, bud? Curse my eternal pragmatism, but man-as-enigma is not really my thing. So Cass’s lifetime of veiled yet present, hooded yet en plein air, trapped in a foreign prison of his own making yet open cataMcCombsing through this, our broken world, only appeals to me in the sense that you know how much effort he really undertook to unleash his last eight albums. The most recent, Mangy Love, is sweet, though. Filled with small-potatoes politics elevated by universal clichés that are then twisted by his trademark tongue-in-cheek je ne sais quoi, the LP exists as another diary entry we’ll never be able to truly translate. And, after all this time, isn’t that exactly what we wanted from him? Simply the same, only different. KIM SELLING
