Weekend Music Preview: My Education and Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

Local post-rock connoisseurs My Education bring expansive walls of sound to the comforts of Emo’s Lounge this Saturday. The band expertly constructs stirring atmospheric rock, patiently adding appropriate layers and a textured ambiance to their cinematic compositions via a plethora of instruments including the pedal steel guitar, piano, violin, and vibraphone. Fittingly, My Education have performed at the Alamo Drafthouse in the past, scoring films ranging from (Mamoru Oshii’s) Angel’s Egg to (F.W. Warnau’s) Sunrise, a true testament to their talent. The Dead Science headline with spastic spurts of experimental rock that seem disjointed on first listen but are impressively coherent when you indulge the somewhat eerie concoctions. The diverse instrumentation and the varying standards create quite the avant-garde ruckus; it should all make for a raucous live show. The Seattle band released their third full-length Villainaire earlier this year.

Indiana’s Margot & the Nuclear So and So's managed to record a decent amount of material after signing with Epic Records last year. However, Epic did not accept the band’s selection of songs for the new album; instead, Epic put together its own song list but that was duly rejected by Richard Edwards, the band’s vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter. In the end, Epic released two versions of the new record -- Animal! (the band’s preferred version) and Not Animal (the label’s preferred version) -- both were released earlier this week digitally and on vinyl, but only the latter got the full physical CD release treatment. Check out Margot & the Nuclear So and So's oh-so-easy-on-the-ears folk-pop this Sunday at The Mohawk; David Vandervelde and Judgement Day open. (Win some cool stuff by designing a tour poster for the band -- details here.)

Follow the jump for information on more shows in town this weekend.