#Incubus band cover movie#
The fact that nobody’s made a cyberpunk movie yet with them as the house band at some neon Mohawk club is a criminal oversight. On albums like Get Color and Death Magic, the group found a way to turn noise music into party rock. Mixing together rock with electronic textures, soft vocals, and dissonant noise, HEALTH creates sexy, druggy soundscapes, and you can dance or rage to them. But if you want to talk about “indie sleaze” as a sound, as an attitude, Los Angeles’ HEALTH have been proudly carrying that torch like debauched Olympians for years. It’s the old VICE Magazine vibes, a return to the time where it was fashionable to snort a line of coke while listening to "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” and pretend Interpol made more than one good album. 8 p.m., $44.50/$50 via . Ashley NaftuleĬrescent Ballroom, 308 North Second AvenueMuch has been made about the comeback of “indie sleaze” as an aesthetic over the last couple of years. So don’t miss your chance to catch Liverpool’s other Fab Four in the flesh at The Van Buren.
The only thing better than belting “The Killing Moon” or “Lips Like Sugar” at karaoke is hearing McCulloch himself do the honors. The Bunnymen welcomed excess, even going so far as to bring in a 35-piece orchestra for Ocean Rain, the crown jewel in a discography littered with gems. The magic of the Bunnymen lies in the interplay between McCulloch’s melodramatic voice crooning gothic slam poetry while Will Sergeant’s ringing guitar work and the band’s progressively more intricate arrangements built a musical landscape where yellow submarines and Bela Lugosi could exist side by side. Fronted by vocalist Ian McCulloch, Echo and the Bunnymen, in particular, left an indelible mark on the '80s alternative scene with one immaculate LP after another: Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here, Porcupine, and the mighty Ocean Rain. The city by the River Mersey has been a musical hotbed throughout the 20th century, producing not only the Beatles and the Merseybeat scene but also a healthy crop of post-punk and new wave acts with groups like The Teardrop Explodes and neo-psychedelic mope-punks Echo and the Bunnymen. The Van Buren, 401 West Van Buren StreetThe Beatles weren’t Liverpool’s only Fab Four. With The Aquadolls and Sublime with Rome via 7 p.m., $25-$109.50. It’s been more than five years since they’ve dropped any new albums (2017’s 8 is their most recent release), but Incubus have enough material in their discography and goodwill among their fans to sustain a tour. (It also helped that vocalist Brandon Boyd is more of an affable and charming frontman.) Incubus have also evolved their sound since their days of being in heavy rotation on MTV, grafting prog, art rock, and even pop influences into tunes from the mid-2000s onward. They had more cerebral and diverse lyricism with funkier grooves, and less of the “angry white-boy” shtick of Limp Bizkit and others. The fact is, though, that save for a few similarities with bands like Linkin Park and Staind (such as melodic vocals and hip-hop elements), Incubus stood apart from acts of the nu-metal ilk. and 1999's Make Yourself) coming out just as the genre was breaking big into the mainstream.
Ak-Chin Pavilion, 2121 North 83rd AvenueIncubus tend to get lumped in with other nu-metal acts of the late ‘90s and early 2000s, owing to their two biggest albums (1997's S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
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