- Young Fathers
If you’re looking for something fun to do with your mom this Mother’s Day weekend and she’s a fan of live music you’re in luck, cause there are plenty of shows to see through Sunday.
“When Off! debuted in 2009, they were the most exciting band on the planet: the greatest front man in the history of Los Angeles hardcore, channeling the glory days of 80s west-coast DIY punk-house culture with three of the sharpest rock musicians around,” writes Luca Cimarusti. “By the time Off! dropped their self-titled full-length debut in 2012, they’d gotten almost too good. They were so tight and proficient that there was no room left for the heart-racing raggedness of their first seven-inches, and all the songs kind of sounded the same—was it possible that the band had already overstayed their welcome? With this spring’s Wasted Years (Vice), Off! answers that question definitively with 16 tracks that breathe fresh air into their sound, even as they could still pass for vintage Black Flag or Circle Jerks—the tweaks to their formula (noisy guitar solos, hard-as-nails bridge riffs, the occasional midtempo stomp) are small enough to keep the purists happy.”
Sun 5/11: Mike Weis at Constellation
