Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals

Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others

Comments (0) By L.A. Weekly Music Critics Thursday, Jul 12 2012

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Tygers of Wrath

GLASS HOUSE (Pomona)

PHOTO BY SHERVIN LAINEZ

Amanda Palmer: See Wednesday.

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Love 'em or hate 'em, Tool propelled the popular perception of prog rock from Dungeons & Dragons-y, dork-infested backwater to hip, cultured counterpoint to the knuckleheaded excesses of turn-of-the-millennium nu metal. So while Generation Text proggers like Apple Valley's Tygers of Wrath are influenced as much by the 1970s jazz-rock of the Mahavishnu Orchestra as by Warped Tour–era post-hardcore, they're serious contenders in an age when conceptual lyrics and ambitious polyrhythms needn't spell commercial doom. The Tygers' latest YouTube offering, "Bicycle Fight," while still burbling with sonic adventure, finds the trio in a playful, almost poppy mood, its unsettling grooves sweetened with electronic sprinkles and the Mike Patton–ish side of Ahmad Ibrahim's anguished timbre. The Glass House is effectively home turf for ToW, so expect fervent support and fiery form. —Paul Rogers

Also playing:

STEPHANE WREMBEL at Culver City City Hall; SILVER SNAKES at Origami Vinyl; QUILT, YOUNG MAGIC at the Echo; BIG TIME RUSH at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.