Awesome New Republic, DBB Plays Cups, Giant Cloud

Monday, October 19, 2009 | 7:30pm | $5

AWESOME NEW REPUBLIC

Miami, Florida’s ANR came together in 2002 as a collective of musicians spearheaded by John Hancock, B. Rob E. Robertson, and a vision of progressice socio-political pop just as danceable as is is intellectual. As the chunky, lo-fi recordings piled up and the mixture of R&B melodies came face to face with post-punk instrumentation, the pair developed their own unique style of hyper electric pop rock.

DBB PLAYS CUPS

C’ville’s David Benson Baker puts on a strikingly unconventional and always original show (if not always an original band).

GIANT CLOUD (Park the Van Records)

New Orleans’ Giant Cloud condensed somewhere over Lincoln Parish, North Louisiana in the summer of love, 2008. That same summer, a sweaty, overcrowded Ford Windstar named Windy caravaned most of them through the triumphs and trials of the great American West as they busked their way from and back again to Ruston. Slightly dazed and confused, each brought back their own story, abstract sunburn and new love for the freedom of an open highway. They came home to a new house never lacking people willing and ready to play music, a new music room with an absurd amount of outlets and a whole maze of house in which to experiment with new things. Impressed with their own perception, they decided to live the life of traveling cantantes, touring the universe inciting dance riots and spreading the gospel of soft/loud/soft/loud rock ‘n’ roll.