Austinist Show Preview: Joe Lally and Edie Sedgwick at The Mohawk
Tuesday, February 25
The Mohawk (912 Red River)
Doors at 9pm, All Ages
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When the band decided to go into one of those ominous “hiatuses” in 2002, former Fugazi members kept busy, recording solo and with others, and bassist Joe Lally began recording under his own name in addition to working with side projects like Ataxia. Lally's latest solo release is entitled Nothing is Underrated, and he is touring behind the album with support from a band consisting of Andrea Moscianese and Capillary Action’s Ricardo Lagomasino. Lally’s solo work is skeletal but forceful, with an emphasis on lower frequencies that you might expect from a punk bassist of so many years.
Accompanying Lally is fellow D.C. musician Edie Sedgwick, a musician not trying to pay tribute to the late actress , but who claims to actually be her “transgendered reincarnation.” Sedgwick’s modus operandi is “to save the world by singing, writing, and producing video about celebrities.” There is much, much more about this on Edie’s website, including a break-down of what’s wrong with both modernism and post-modernism, but all you really have to know is that Edie Sedgwick performs songs about Angelina Jolie to the accompaniment of a backing track of electro-clashy beats and a video projector. It’s either your thing or it isn’t, but it will be interesting either way.
Joe Lally: [website] [myspace]
Edie Sedgwick: [website] [myspace]
