Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age
For the week of Jan. 3 - 10
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9
Money Mark at the Troubadour
Well rested from springtime touring with the Beastie Boys, Money — née Mark Ramos-Nishita — has focused some of his recent energies with the Omar Rodríguez-López Group, which consists of the majority of the Mars Volta and, at one point, Damo Suzuki of Can, playing longish, formless jams steeped in the laid-back coffee culture (cough cough) of Amsterdam. His seventh studio album, Brand New by Tomorrow (on Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records imprint), features the jazzy, faintly rueful and laconic single “Pick Up the Pieces,” the video for which shows sign-spinning street-corner guys plying their trade downtown as the Money store opens for business. He displays such an earnest level of nerd-bourgeoisie that one suspects it’s not an act and that Mark cuts his $2 bills from sheets straight from the mint to help pay for his cracked electronics and beats — and who said troubadours had to be about mandolins and sackbuts, anyway? (David Cotner)
THURSDAY, Jan. 10
Six Organs of Admittance at the Echo
The ghosts of probing six- and 12-stringers John Fahey and Sandy Bull hover benignly above the nimble-fingered guitarist and singer Ben Chasney, but that tells a mere small part of the multihued musical sage-isms he brings to his own Six Organs of Admittance. Chasney, whose ultra-guitar intuitions also grace up such progressive-spirited bands as Comets on Fire, Current 93 and Plague League, has a new Six Organs disc out, Shelter From the Ash (Drag City), done in collab with producer Tim Green of the Fucking Champs, the Magik Markers’ Elisa Ambrogio and Chasney’s Comets on Fire bandmate Noel Harmonson; it reveals much of the darker implications of Chasney’s surreally misty dreams — or ruminations on war — in tightly structured or droney excursions flecked with flickering acoustic guitars or spikily soaring electrics; tin pots and plucked piano innards add to the often ambiguous allure — which can explode in one’s face without fair warning. (John Payne)
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