- Zvuloon Dub System
If you’re looking to enjoy the long Fourth of July weekend in a big way there are plenty of musical options available. If you’re a fan of electronic music you might want to check out the first annual Riverwest Music Festival when it kicks off Friday or you can head down to 63rd and Hayes on Saturday for the Chosen Few Old School Reunion Picnic. Of course there are also plenty of nonfestival concerts worth checking out this weekend.
“Since forming in 2001, this New York new-music juggernaut hasn’t just blurred the lines between neoclassical polyphony and contemporary pop; it’s obliterated them,” writes Peter Margasak. “The group’s 2005 debut album, Acoustica (Cantaloupe), took on the music of Aphex Twin, translating its twitchy, spastic rhythms and itchy counterpoint for a large acoustic ensemble while retaining the sinister playfulness of the original electronic versions. This evening’s concert, Alarm Will Sound’s long-overdue Chicago debut, will include several pieces from that record, among them ‘Cock/Ver10,’ where furious kit drumming batters Baroque melodic fragments, and ‘Blue Calx,’ which generates a serene calm over an unrelenting 4/4 pulse.”
Sun 7/6: Earth Girls at Township
