A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn.
Free Salamander Exhibit at Beat Kitchen on July 31 This five-piece includes four alumni of the inimitable Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and its 2016 debut, Undestroyed, keeps faith with that band’s wild, chimerical prog rock (though without Carla Kihlstedt and her violin, it leans more on guitars). At this show, front man Nils Frykdahl framed the songs’ surreal fables of late-capitalist apocalypse with sly, dadaist patter that unsettled you just enough to absorb their revolutionary messages.
Summertime insect sounds Cicadas! It’s August! Listen to those cicadas!
