Plastic Chord Play Final Show Tonight @ Turf Club

Hodge-podge experimental pop band Plastic Chord are breaking up. For sad. We don't know the reason for such action, only that their eclectic ways will certainly be missed. The painted gold on this lemon is that fans will have one last chance to see the band live, and it's tonight at the Turf Club. Opening will be Gospel Gossip and Gay Witch Abortion. Tickets are $5, and the show starts at 10 pm.


(Plastic Chord - "The City's Overtaken")

Plastic Chord MySpace Page
Gospel Gossip MySpace Page
Gay Witch Abortion MySpace Page

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New Plastic Chord - "Weathervanes and Lightning Rods"

Minneapolis-based septet Plastic Chord have posted a new song from their upcoming EP Electric Tendrils, which will be released on Dec. 13th, over at their MySpace Page. The song is called "Weathervanes and Lightning Rods", and its an upbeat number that's very personable, with horns and a loose drumbeat suggesting a swing influence. Check it out here.

Free Faux Jean Show Tonight At The Triple Rock

(Faux Jean pic via How Was The Show?)

Download: Faux Jean - "The Ballad of Kim & Thurston"
Download: Faux Jean - "Fuck The Formula" (Demo)
Download: The Brutes - "Money Ghost"
Download: Plastic Chord - "No Windows"

The holiday season is finally over, which means that, if you're like anyone else, you dropped a small fortune in buying gifts for friends and loved ones. Which also means that, for the next few months, you'll be pinching your pennies and then some. So that means that live music is more or less out of the question. That is, of course, unless said music is absolutely free.

That's the case with tonight's Faux Jean show at the Triple Rock. Doors are at 9 p.m. for the 21+ show. Faux Jean are wholly devoted to 60s revivalism in the same way that The Brian Jonestown Massacre or First Communion Afterparty are. The Minneapolis-based group impressively puts a psychedelic spin on both the joyous pop-rock that characterized The Beatles' early work and Bob Dylan's antagonistic folk-rock (particularly on "Fuck The Formula", which you can listen to at the top of the post). These stylistic touches are delivered with Lou Reed's sing-speak snarl, and that helps give the material a healthy dose of attitude. Of course, any comparisons to music legends past seem moot in the face of the beautiful, shimmering, and immaculately gorgeous "File", one of the many songs from 2007's The Mongolian Invasion, Pt. 1, a collection of 4-track demos recorded in the past ten years. Also opening are wistful pop-rock group The Brutes--who, despite their name, are quite gentile--and eccentric indie-tronic/power-pop band Plastic Chord.

Once again, the show at the T-Rock is 21+, free, and doors are at 9 p.m.

Faux Jean MySpace Page
The Brutes MySpace Page
Plastic Chord MySpace Page


(Jonathan Graef)

Tonight: Plastic Chord CD Release Party At The DinkyTowner

Download: Plastic Chord - "Mirror For Princes"

For those of you who think that Weezer need to get a 21st century indie-tronica makeover, look no further than Minneapolis' own Plastic Chord. The band's 2007 effort Colonial Conundrum came out back in October, but they are having the CD release party for the album tonight at the Dinkytowner. The show starts at 9 and tickets are a measly two dollars. Holy crap, that's cheap.

Listen to a song from CC at the top of the post.

Buy Colonial Conundrum here.

MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)