Best Shows To See Seun Kuti Ooioo Fresh Onlys

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The 90s are back! Veruca Salt plays on Monday, and that’s something to get excited for. Unfortunately, the show is sold out. While they’re not the blast of angsty nostalgia Veruca Salt would have been, there are some other great shows to see at the beginning of this week.

Afrobeat star Seun Kuti comes to the Concord this week. Peter Margasak says of his new album A Long Way to the Beginning, “The new album’s ferocious opener, ‘IMF,’ brings a classic Afrobeat groove to a full boil with chattering brass and choppy, cross-cutting funk—and the lyrics don’t hold back either, renaming the IMF ‘International Motherfuckers.’ The following track, ‘African Airways,’ also aims its bitter sarcasm at outside forces exploiting the continent; the song’s metaphorical airline uses ‘Chinese engines,’ ‘World Bank radars,’ and ‘Western pilots.’ On ‘Ohun Aiye,’ which includes a rollicking piano solo from Glasper, Kuti and Egypt 80 tap into the percolating rhythms of Congolese kwassa kwassa (Vampire Weekend appropriated the term three decades after the fact), and on ‘Black Woman’ they opt for a slow, soul-inflected vamp to salute the strength, courage, and intelligence of black women.”