If you’re sitting at your desk thinking, “I’d really like to spend tonight watching a handful of the most talented people to ever produce music in D.C. or anywhere come together on one stage,” then you’re in luck. The 9:30 Club is hosting some of the most talented products of our fair city tonight.
Headlining the night is Dust Galaxy, the Theivery Corporation side project that’s been making blog waves since the fall. Rob Garza takes the lead and brings some other influences into his standard electronic loungey sound. Ashish Vyas of the defunct San Diego band GoGoGo Airheart brings in a post-punk state of mind on bass. James Canty brings a gamut of rock goodness on lead guitar. Canty, of course, is no stranger to the D.C. and national music scene, as he was a big part of greats Nation of Ulysses and The Make Up. Canty is also part of another D.C. band, French Toast, who’ve donated Ben Gilligan to Dust Galaxy on “rhythm guitar.” Yoko Kamitani of Aphrodezia lends some more ambient background to the mix with keyboards and effects. Oh, and there’s this other guy — Jerry Busher on drums. We think he was in some other D.C. band at some point.
Pour all those influences in a blender and what do you get? A super group? A perfectly mixed bag? If it’s what Garza intended, then yes. He told properly chilled:
People often think that I spend all my time submerged in electronic music, but in reality, people are very surprised to find me at home in dive bars listening to rock, soul and psychedelic music. What I love about some of my favorite records is the way they drift through musical temperaments. For me, great records are always about salvation, redemption, reflection, the dirt and the beauty, living through your own trials and experiences. This record taps into numerous different musical styles as well as cultural ideologies.
Dust Galaxy isn’t all the 9:30 is offering up tonight, so keep on reading.