Best Shows To See Courtney Barnett Together Pangea

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It’s Presidents Day, which means some of you get to kick back and take the day off. Even if you don’t have the day off, there’s plenty of ways to celebrate—specifically, plenty of great concerts, such as Justin Timberlake at the United Center and Ultra Bide at LiveWire Lounge.

“Twenty-five-year-old Melbourne singer Courtney Barnett unfurls the lines to her wordy songs with an apathy that belies their sharpness,” writes Peter Margasak. “She propels last year’s impressive The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (Marathon Artists) with her scrappy, post-Velvet Underground guitar, which alternates between rudimentary rock ‘n’ roll riffs (such as the Chicago blues lick in ‘David’) and hypnotic swirling (‘Porcelain’). In a thickly accented voice, Barnett reveals private details of her life like she’s reading a recipe aloud, but her monotone delivery doesn’t take the bite out of her lyrics.”