This looks like pretty interesting show(see below), and I haven't been to the Warehouse yet. Thoughts?
Also, I'm wondering about the Walkmen & The National at 9:30 on Thursday. I've heard a lot about The National here on the board; they're at Black Cat March 7th, in the midst of "crazy ass" week, so I'm thinking catching them Thursday might make sense, to be sure I see them. Don't know a thing about the Walkmen. Just looking for some feedback....
Warehouse Next Door
1017 7th St. NW
8:00 doors * $7
Wednesday Feb 25
THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES
> Psych Pop from Bloomington featuring members of Kill Rock Stars' John Wilkes Booze. Secretly Canadian Records
LIKE LANGUAGE
> power trio playing angular melodic sounds of DC (x-Q and not U)
HEAD OF FEMUR
> ex-Bright Eyes playing Elephant 6 inspired psych jams.
For their fourth proper full-length, We Like It Wild, Bloomington's Impossible Shapes ventured into the Indiana State Forest and emerged with
campfire-smoked clothes, pine needles in their hair, and 14 jangly psych-folk-pop tunes perfectly built for stoners from '60s-era London to modern-day Santa Cruz. Frontman Chris Barth's gentle tenor is set to the sometimes ethereal, sometimes jammy revolving guitar and rhythm section of multi-instrumentalists Aaron Deer, Jason Groth, and Mark Rice. Given the and's many influences, comparisons abound to everyone from Derek and the Dominos to the entire Elephant 6 collective. But the band's own press paints a more vivid picture, imagining the goofballs "on Vashti Bunyan's cart-ride across England's countryside, hoofing it during the day, setting up camp at night, chasing dogs and smoking tea into the reamscape." Bring your special Earl Grey when the Impossible Shapes play with Head of Femur and Like Language at 9 p.m. at the Warehouse Next Door, 1017 7th St. NW. $7. (202) 783-3933.
-Anne Marson, Washington City Paper
The core of this mini-orchestra is a trio of transplanted Nebraskans, including Bright Eyes drummer Matt Focht, who brings a breathless enthusiasm to his vocals. From the ening "January on Strike," which packs nearly an album's worth of ideas into 128 seconds, Head of Femur announces grandiose ambitions that suggest Chicago's answer to the dense, neo-psychedelic indie-rock albums of the Elephant 6 collective (Apples in Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel). They occasionally over-reach, and could stand to learn a lesson or two from the compact architecture of Brian Eno's "The True Wheel," which they cover faithfully. But the thrills far outweigh the disappointments, and "Ringodom of Proctor" is filled with small epiphanies, particularly in the way the strings and horns are used to accent and augment the melodies, rather than to simply smother them.
- Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune (Originally published Aug. 14, 2003)
http://www.headoffemur.com http://www.secretlycanadian.com
