event Buttercup
Also Playing: Deathray Davies and Salim Nourallah
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Fri Jul 31
10 pm
Buttercup, Deathray Davies, and Salim Nourallah at Mohawk
San Antonio pop experimentalists Buttercup used to be impossible to pin down. Not so much aesthetically, as its random sampling of late-’60s psychedelia and paisley-flecked jangle of ’80s college rock has been fairly consistent, but the band was once more famous for breaking up its shows with bizarre performance-art stunts than its music—though it’s tried rectifying that with its prolific output over the last couple of years. There’s little hint of that wildness in its latest, The Weather Here, a relatively mellow trip through vaguely twangy midtempo power pop, but never underestimate the group’s capacity for surprise. Openers The Deathray Davies live up to their Kinks-inspired name by stirring together psychedelia and ’60s garage rock with catchy, crunchy alt-pop.
Mohawk 912 Red River St, Austin, TX
San Antonio pop experimentalists Buttercup used to be impossible to pin down. Not so much aesthetically, as its random sampling of late-’60s psychedelia and paisley-flecked jangle of ’80s college rock has been fairly consistent, but the band was once more famous for breaking up its shows with bizarre performance-art stunts than its music—though it’s tried rectifying that with its prolific output over the last couple of years. There’s little hint of that wildness in its latest, The Weather Here, a relatively mellow trip through vaguely twangy midtempo power pop, but never underestimate the group’s capacity for surprise. Openers The Deathray Davies live up to their Kinks-inspired name by stirring together psychedelia and ’60s garage rock with catchy, crunchy alt-pop.
Updated 07/28/2009
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