LOOK MEXICO What’s the Deal: If this doesn’t make you think of a particularly pleasant spring day, you’re playing it wrong. Sharp, layered guitars ‘pling’ back and forth in a way that would make Minus the Bear salivate. Inviting melodies charm over the winding guitar experiments and jazzy, traveling drums. In their video for “Guys I Need a Helicopter,” the band is playing outside under a canopy of Florida trees in cut-off shorts and... more ›

Nowhere to go this Tuesday night? No worries because Emo’s presents a bill of (pre) historic proportions. New York’s Pterodactyl headline in support of their debut full-length, titled either Blue Jay or simply Pterodactyl, depending on where you purchase it. Out on two labels (Brah Records and Cardboard Records), the album contains energetic post-punk full of throbbing start-stop guitar rock and pulsating harmonies. Local outfit When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth precede Pterodactyl in support of... more ›