That night at Oxfam, as I watch a handful of kids get spastic for Future Islands and Adventure in a dingy parlor-sized room, I can’t help wondering what it would it feel like to be crushed in with one giant sweaty ball of spazzing Wham Citizens while Dan Deacon and his posse drench us in exuberant dorktronica from every direction. Only one way to find out . . .
BALTIMORE ROUND ROBIN TOUR | MassArt Pozen Center, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston | October 2–3 at 8 pm | $8 one night/$15 both |www.myspace.com/mcaeventworks orwww.baltimoreroundrobin.com.
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Real Estate’s buzzed-about debut speaks the language of the season, its slow sunset of sound flush with twinkling Stratocasters, drum kits that trot off into the distance, and anemic vocals that, as with Grizzly Bear or Beach House, magnify the fragility of it all.
- Boys’ life
The art features boy toys (no dolls, thank you very much), gadgets, and secret clubhouses.
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