- Megadeth
The festival you’ve all been waiting for kicks off this weekend—Warped Tour! Kidding, kidding, I meant to say the Pitchfork Music Festival (be sure to read our prefest coverage). But if you want to check out the traveling punk minimall head to First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre on Saturday.
“The thing about guitarist Matt Pulos and drummer Evan Laffer—ahead-of-the-curve 19-year-olds from Agoura Hills, California, who play together as Dub Thompson—is that they can’t keep their genres in their pants,” writes Kevin Warwick. “Their eight-song debut, 9 Songs (Dead Oceans), is a barely structured mishmash of drug-rug psych, Krautrock, experimental noise, and dirty rock ‘n’ roll. Overseen by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, himself an experienced space cadet, this fun but peculiar album will surely please folks entertained by intentional ‘skips’ (even on digital tracks) and carnival-music outros (the last minute of ‘Dograces’).”
Sun 7/20: Daniel Levin, Jim Baker, and Frank Rosaly at Hungry Brain
