Tuesday 10.14.08: Aquarium Drunkard presents WIRE / THE MUSLIMS @ echoplex

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Usually, when a band has been around for 30 years and is most famous for the material produced in its first five years, the praise for new albums tends to reward the band for music made decades in the past. There may be no band that fights against this phenomenon more than Wire. This is a band that trumped all the first-wave punk bands with its watershed debut, 1977’s Pink Flag, and then immediately wiped the slate clean with the post-punk classic Chairs Missing the following year. The band’s legacy rests on the notion that its members would rather be caught dead then rest on their laurels.

Object 47, its name deriving from its number in the Wire catalog (similar to their third album, 154, the number of shows they’d performed to that point), is a new direction for a band that have made a career of taking new directions. While Send and the Read and Burn EPs revised the blueprint of the band’s classic material, Object 47 is by far the most trip-hop-influenced material Wire has ever produced, with additional elements of classic Madchester and acid house. – Prefix Mag

with:
The Muslims

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

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8pm / $20 adv, $22 dos / 18+