concert poster by Mark Pedini

No Age and Abe Vigoda at Emo’s
Tuesday, July 1
Emo's (603 Red River St)
$8, doors at 8
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Los Angeles, for all its immensity, is one of the few American cities which can truly be said to have its own, isolated identity. And we'll be able to get a nice taste of that tonight, as The City of Angels attacks Austin with a couple of the best bands that freakishly large city has to offer. Headlining is No Age, whose recently released sophomore LP, Nouns, has been lauded far and wide as one of the year's top albums. No Age is the brainchild of dynamic duo Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt, who use their exceptional names to craft churning lo-fidelity punk music that inspires critical analysis rather than mere dancefloor spasmosis—consider this the thinking person's punk rock.

Opening up is the almost-equally-acclaimed Abe Vigoda, whose third full-length, Skeleton, is due out in less than a month. Named in honor of the admirably-skulled actor (he played Tessio in The Godfather, and is known for spectacular eyebrows and perpetual old age), Abe Vigoda plays stunningly-catchy tropical punk, which is an interesting way to say they are entertaining as shit. When they open up at Emo's, they're sure to leave the crowd energized and begging for more, which should be just about perfect for a Tuesday.

Those two are going to make the late night sweaty and boisterous, but the two groups working earlier in the evening aren't slouches themselves. Infinite Body pile on the California with lush soundscapes ranging from the beautiful to the screechy, while The Strange Boys offer some Austin flavor with pleasing old-timey tunes and a sound that could have been recorded forty years ago or last week. Altogether, it should be a rocking LA-heavy night, complete with everything you could ever want from America's second largest metropolis, save for suffocating smog and all that traffic.

No Age [MySpace] [Blog]
Abe Vigoda [MySpace]
Infinite Body [MySpace] [Label]
The Strange Boys [MySpace]