Local promoter Pegstar has just put tickets on sale for the following shows:
Los Campesinos (with Titus Andronicus), January 29, Walter's on Washington
Broken Social Scene (with the Lymbic System), February 2, Numbers
Los Campesinos!
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (Arts & Crafts)
www.loscampesinos.com
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed is a difficult album to wrap your head around.
On the one hand, Los Campesinos!' two lead vocalists Gareth and Aleksandra Campesinos have syrupy and consistently beautiful voices--at the same time innocent and tragic. Their voices are strong enough to carry the songs to danceable places full of an infectiousness not many bands can harness.
But on the other hand, the songs
Photos by Mark C. AustinIt's always nice to see a band that respects its elders, and Denver's DeVotchKa has taken Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic" promise "I wanna rock your gypsy soul" to heart. Finding the seam between Old World traveler tunes and contemporary indie-rock, the quartet (and a few friends) matched the energy of the full house in Warehouse Live's studio with nearly 90 minutes of full-tilt fiddling, plunking, blowing and strumming that barely stopped to catch its b
