Go See Devotchka Tonight
Before there was Beirut, capitalizing on the trendiness of world sounds in indie rock, Devotchka was paving the way with their bizarro spaghetti western-influenced bleeding heart folk. Though they’ve been putting out records since 2000, it was in 2006 that they really started to get the exposure and love they deserve.
On Morning Becomes Eclectic, the famed KCRW radio show, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris heard a Devotchka tune and contacted the Denver band to provide the soundtrack for their film Little Miss Sunshine. The film, obviously, went on to great critical success and the soundtrack garnered a Grammy nomination.
However, their stellar EP from 2006, Curse Your Little Heart, and the follow-up to the success of the soundtrack, 2008’s A Mad & Faithful Telling, were records that cemented my love for this totally unique sound. They use all kinds of weird stuff: theremin, accordian, organ, sousaphone, bouzouki, trumpt and melodica.
There’s something about them that feels like the circus. They’d fit right in underneath the big top alongside sword-throwers, fire breathers and stilt-walkers. It’s just a little freaky (in a good way).
Tickets are $24 in advance and $26 at the door and Pearl & The Beard open. Doors are at 7pm and show starts at 8pm.
Some Shows We’ve Got Our Eyes On
Friday, March 8th – Django Django
Thursday, March 14th – Starfucker
Friday, March 22nd – The Feelies
Friday, March 29th – Pusha T
Monday, April 8th – Mika
Wednesday, April 10th – Presidents of the United States of America
Thursday, April 11th – Galactic
Sunday, April 14th – Jamie Lidell
Saturday, April 20th – The Joy Formidable
Friday, April 26th – The Dillinger Escape Plan
Saturday, March 23rd – Garbage
Sunday, March 24th – Bad Religion
Friday, April 12th – Black Crowes
Saturday, May 4th – Foals
Thursday, March 7th – Obits
Wednesday, March 27th – Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Thursday, March 28th – Here We Go Magic
Wednesday, March 6th – Stars
Friday, March 8th – Devotchka
Wednesday, April 10th – Toots and The Maytals
Tuesday, April 30th – Johnny Marr
Thursday, March 7th – Veronica Falls
Saturday, March 9th – Indians
Wednesday, March 13th – Tim Kasher
Saturday, March 16th – The Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret
Saturday, March 23rd – Sky Ferreira with How to Dress Well
Sunday, March 24th – Kate Nash
Monday, March 25th – Phosphorescent
Thursday, April 4th – The Cave Singers with Bleeding Rainbow
Friday, April 5th – Purling Hiss album release party
Saturday, April 20th – Born Ruffians
Saturday, March 23rd – Owen
Friday, April 19th – Iceage
Wednesday, April 10th – TNGHT
Tuesday, March 19th – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Sharon Van Etten
Thursday, April 4th – Living Colour
Monday, April 8th – Rodriguez
Wednesday, April 17th – B.B. King
Saturday, April 20th – Billy Bragg
Saturday, April 6th – Morrissey
Sunday, April 7th – Keyshia Cole
Thursday, March 21st – Esben and the Witch
Sunday, April 7th – Far Out Fangtooth
Tuesday, April 9th – Port St. Willow
Friday, March 22nd – Les Professionnels & Friends
Friday, March 29th – Dangerous Ponies
Wednesday, April 3rd – Caitlin Rose
Saturday, April 27th – El Malito
The Theatre of the Living Arts
Friday, March 15th – Yacht Rock Revue
Sunday, March 24th – Tyler, The Creator
Friday, April 5th – They Might Be Giants
Thursday, April 11th – Bonobo
Thursday, April 18th – Anthrax
Saturday, April 20th – Keller Williams
Friday, April 26th – Les Claypool
Friday, May 3rd – Boris
Sunday, May 5th – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
No Plans Tonight? Movie Monday’s Got The Dark Knight Rises
In honor of the screening of The Dark Knight Rises at the Trocadero, and since we’re being listy, here are the Batman movies ranked from worst to best:
Batman & Robin (1997)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman Returns (1992)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman (1989)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Doors at 6:30p, show’s at 8p.
Batman Begins (2005)
The two from Joel Schumacher are easily the worst, right? And Tim Burton’s never made a bad movie, has he (he didn’t direct Cabin Boy)? The Christopher Nolan flicks are just sick. They’re awesome and, despite being a seemingly giant douchebag, Christian Bale makes a great Bruce Wayne. He’s producing that new Superman jawn, too, Man of Steel, but not directing it.