event Quasi
Also Playing: Let's Wrestle
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John Clark
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Thu Apr 15
8 pm
Quasi and Let's Wrestle at Turf Club
Catchiness is just one fault line among many that Quasi's Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (also of Sleater-Kinney) have enjoyed skipping along ever since 1993. Case in point: The new American Gong finds the two (and new bassist Joanna Bolme) crashing about all over the place–from noisy guitar-rock to elegant piano-pop–but still kicks off with the addictive, stretchy hooks of "Repulsion." Though it's Quasi's first album in four years, Gong keeps up the disjointed chaos of the band's blues-rock, drums-and-keys starting point, which fuels the group's ongoing versatility. Opening band Let's Wrestle's debut album, In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's, is a crunchy confection of shaggy, bubblegum post-punk, with lead singer Wesley Patrick Gonzalez proudly carrying on the legacy of British sing-shouters handed down by Mark E. Smith and (more recently) Eddie Argos.
Turf Club 1601 University Ave. W., Twin Cities, MN
Catchiness is just one fault line among many that Quasi's Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (also of Sleater-Kinney) have enjoyed skipping along ever since 1993. Case in point: The new American Gong finds the two (and new bassist Joanna Bolme) crashing about all over the place–from noisy guitar-rock to elegant piano-pop–but still kicks off with the addictive, stretchy hooks of "Repulsion." Though it's Quasi's first album in four years, Gong keeps up the disjointed chaos of the band's blues-rock, drums-and-keys starting point, which fuels the group's ongoing versatility. Opening band Let's Wrestle's debut album, In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's, is a crunchy confection of shaggy, bubblegum post-punk, with lead singer Wesley Patrick Gonzalez proudly carrying on the legacy of British sing-shouters handed down by Mark E. Smith and (more recently) Eddie Argos.
Updated 04/15/2010
