- Kid Sister
On Saturday there’s plenty of opportunity to catch a lot of great performances for free thanks to Record Store Day—check out the Reader‘s RSD listings to fill your afternoon with live music. There are plenty of other great shows to see that aren’t associated with Saturday’s retail “holiday.”
“John Cale is revered thanks to his years in the Velvet Underground—possibly even more so since the passing of Lou Reed last fall—but he earns our continued attention with his new music,” writes Monica Kendrick. “His 15th studio album, 2012’s Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood (Double Six), got mixed responses from critics, much like his first primarily electronic album, 1985’s Artificial Intelligence—and in both cases, a lot of the cringing had to do with his refusal to act his age. The 72-year-old doesn’t sound like a legacy artist on Shifty Adventures; he sounds like a weirdo puttering around in a studio with younger collaborators (most notably Danger Mouse) to create surrealist pop that’s vaguely sinister, vaguely sexual, and vaguely melancholy.”
Sun 4/20: Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio at Jazz Showcase
