monday agenda: andrew bird, loney dear, goblin cock
 Loney Dear’s Emil Svanängen; photo by Deb Caponera via Polyvinyl Records |
- The last time we saw Andrew Bird in Seattle it was in a Zoo singing about [a]nonanimals, badly-tended chickens, and other creatures [mb]. Many of those songs now appear on recently-released and, for me at least, heavy-rotation Noble Beast. He and his band will be at the Moore tonight, a suitably grand yet crumbling venue for his songs, which start with loops, whistles, and melodic fragments and build savant-like into magnificent pieces. Don’t miss opener Emil Svanängen’s Loney Dear (now comma-free), whose low-fi urgently hushed distillations (at least that’s how they sound on Airport Surroundings [imeem/youtube]) should make an engaging contrast to Bird’s ornamentations. $25, 8pm [themoore]
- I’ve been a fan of Pinback for a while, but not so much that I’ve been brave or metal enough to follow Rob Crow’s Goblin Cock side project. Perhaps you and/or other Metbloggers have more musical fortitude and can report back from their show tonight. [funhouse]
