Francis And The Lights On Monday April 19th, 2010

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Tonight - Monday April 19th, 2010 is Francis & The Lights with Adron and Nerdkween.



Francis and the Lights is a band from New York City, led by Francis Farewell Starlite. The band was formed at Wesleyan University and their first show was a performance of the posthumous Otis Redding record “The Immortal Otis Redding” in its entirety. The current live incarnation of the band includes two drummers playing in conjunction with sequenced percussion.

www.francisandthelights.com



Adron plays second.

"Adron is the eponymous debut and stage moniker of twenty year-old Adrienne McCann. Influenced by late ‘60s Brazilian Tropicàlia, Adron has infused her debut with an international texture and a remarkably vintage sound. She adds to her songs a unique array of embellishments, whistles, and mouth-clicks, and a lyrical sensibility both intelligent and whimsical. Adron plays her nylon string guitar with the casually adept flourish of a Bossa Nova maestro twice her age. This becomes more impressive when we learn that the majority of these songs were originally written when she was fifteen and sixteen years old. There’s a double-awareness in Adron’s music that eludes many songwriters; a sense of self-identity and astute observation that allows her to combine the earnest yearnings of a teenage American girl with the classic melodies and rhythms of a musical movement that began in another country, more than twenty years before she was born. Her youthful exuberance and adroit musicianship together form a style both distinctive and pleasing, but it is her rare ability to meld genre, geography, and musical epochs that reveal the true breadth of Adron’s talent. One can easily sense that this debut is but the first notable stirring of an expansive musical journey to come." -courtesy of New Street Records

Adron Myspace



Nerdkween is the opener.

" "Synergy” shuns glossy editing in favor of refreshingly honest production that reintroduces a much-needed human quality to experimental music, from the clink of the hammers against the piano strings on the track “Icon” to the characteristically charming emphasis Arrington puts on the letter “s” throughout the album. “Synergy” hits high notes on the vocal stunner “If” and the lyrically compelling “Earning My Disgrace,” and provides a nice change of pace with “8 Years,” a live track recorded in New York City at Harlem’s Faison Theater. The self-proclaimed intellectual smartly packages dark subject matter in an accessible manner from start to finish, redefining once again what it really means to be a nerd."- Bitch

Nerdkween Myspace

This show is ALL AGES so doors @ 8 pm and the show will be over by 12 am.

$10 DOS.