Tomorrow Night: Mae Shi @ Elysium
LA's Mae-Shi are dilettantes of experimental electronic-noise-funk-rock, employing all manners of instruments - "guitar, bass, drums, tamborines, noisemakers, computer programs, omnichord, glockinspiel and voice", among others - and "staccato bursts of rhythm" to create something wholly original and, well, unsettling. Unsettling in the sense that listening to these guys in our little monkey boxes makes us want to run outside and set a trashcan on fire! Or deliberately misfile our weekly status reports or something similarly rebellious. You know what we mean.
Consider what our fellow Austinite, Chad Beck - who co-produced the ridiculously indie-chic soundtrack to the videogame Stubbs The Zombie, featuring everyone from The Dandy Warhols to Rogue Wave to The Flaming Lips - had to say:
"The Mae-Shi were easily the best band I saw at SXSW 2005. Just a riotous live show. Like Oh, Beast! colliding with Brainiac and the Ex-Models - - - seriously, the Mae-Shi are just about the best new band I've stumbled across in the past couple years."
You can check 'em out yourself at Elysium tomorrow night along with Freezepop, Best Fwends, and The Show is the Rainbow.
Downloads:
[mp3: Mae-Shi -Vampire Beats]
[mp3: Mae-Shi - Born For a Short Time]
Mae-Shi
Elysium
Friday, October 21
