From DCist contributor Catherine Andrews:
If you’re still buzzing from the spectacular musical Prozac served up at Monday’s Polyphonic Spree concert, DCist has got some mellow concert suggestions for this evening to get you back down to planet D.C. — where the music is good and the living is easy, even if there’s no cult leader in a Day-Glo orange robe singing, hopping around and imploring you to worship the sun/trees/the groovy possibilities of hope.
Taking place tonight at Wolf Trap is Aloha! Hawai’i Music Festival, featuring The Brothers Cazimero, The Masters of Slack Key, and Hawaiian Music’s Next Generation. Now, DCist knows as much about Hawaiian music as we know about astrophysics, but preparing a yummy picnic, sauntering out to the big green lawn at Wolf Trap and letting the sweet sounds of Hawaii wash over you doesn’t sound like a bad way to spend an evening.
Writing songs in the style of the Beatles and the Stones entails the same essential dilemma as composing symphonies in the manner of Beethoven and Mozart: Supplanting or even rivaling your models is not a real possibility.”
But the members of Gomez esteem ’60s and ’70s rock — most of which was made before they were born — and there’s no reason they should have to play rap-metal or speed-garage if they don’t want to. Besides, the British quintet’s fourth album, Split the Difference, makes retro-rock sound almost up to date.
But there’s so much more …
