WEDNESDAY/JUNE/30
SALLY SELTMANN AT THE TROUBADOUR
This Australian singer-songwriter spent the '00s as New Buffalo, releasing a couple of well-regarded indie-pop discs that eventually led (in one way or another) to her co-writing
Feist's Grammy-nominated "1234." Her confidence bolstered perhaps by rubbing award-show elbows with
Nelly Furtado and
Christina Aguilera, Seltmann goes by her own name on her latest, this year's
Heart That's Pounding. It features no big stylistic shifts but does reflect a deepening of Seltmann's craft, most noticeably in the misleadingly titled "Dream About Changing," a delightful neo-Motown number that totally deserves a place alongside "1234" in some future
iPod campaign. ("I'm a little bit shy," Seltmann sings repeatedly in that number, just in case you thought she'd gone Hollywood.) At the Troubadour, where she'll conclude her current North American tour, Seltmann will be backed by a duo that includes her husband (and Avalanches member) Darren on drums. Cute, right? (
Mikael Wood)
PHOTO BY ROGER KRUEGER
The Adicts, ecstatically
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Also playing Wednesday: HOT HOT HEAT, VOXHAUL BROADCAST at Bootleg Theatre; DAMIEN JURADO at Spaceland; JOHN LEFLER at Hotel Café; GRAVITY, EDDIE SANABRIA, LLOYD'S GARAGE at the Mint; SKEETOX at the Roxy.
THURSDAY/JULY/1
DUM DUM GIRLS, CROCODILES AT THE ECHO
The preeminent local act in a bicoastal lady-led hipster-garage scene that also includes New York's Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls deconstruct '60s-era girl-group pop and reassemble it with fresh fuzz on I Will Be, their buzzed-about Sub Pop debut from earlier this year. It's a narrowly defined sound that the band's surnameless mastermind, Dee Dee (formerly known as Grand Ole Party frontwoman Kristin Gundred), gets loads of mileage out of, thanks to her darkly melancholic songs and the involvement of producer Richard Gottehrer, who, in addition to co-writing "My Boyfriend's Back," has worked with other latter-day lo-fi types such as the Raveonettes. San Diego–based openers Crocodiles, with Dee Dee's husband, Brandon Welchez, on vocals, have an appealingly droney new one due out in September that they made with James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco. Perhaps they'll offer a preview tonight. (Mikael Wood)
THE ADICTS AT THE KEY CLUB
Some people feel that punk is birthed from anger, while others feel that it's rooted in ecstatic fun. For the latter, the Adicts are the be-all, end-all of punk rock. Since the mid-'70s, the boys from Ipswich, England, have been throwing a party onstage every night, a marathon of up-tempo songs you can't help but sing along to. Frontman Monkey performs in ensembles that would make Michael Jackson jealous, joined by Pete Dee, Kid Dee, Mel, Scruff and Fiddle Dan in Clockwork Orange droog–style uniforms. The Adicts put on a show that answers the bizarre question, "What if GWAR replaced all the blood and pus with confetti and streamers?" It's the ultimate house party you spent all night looking for when you were 17. With the Blanx, the P.I.N.S. and the Victims kicking things off. (Diamond Bodine-Fischer)
Also playing Thursday: SAINT MOTEL, KITTEN at Hammer Museum; SLOANE at House of Blues; GARRISON STARR at Hotel Café; SENECA HAWK at Viper Room; SUGARHILL GANG at Whisky A Go-Go; SEE SPOT at the Troubadour; LITTLE FEAT at Coach House.
