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World Music Festival starts today. Riot Fest kicks off tomorrow. The Reader put together comprehensive guides for both eye-grabbing musical bashes, so read our previews for World Music Festival and Riot Fest if you plan on attending either (or both). Besides those two big events are a mess of other concerts worthy of your time.
“Psychedelic garage rock is reaching a saturation point, and not just because Ty Segall releases four records a year and Thee Oh Sees go through so many highly publicized breakups and reunions that it’s no use counting them,” writes Luca Cimarusti. “But if you think you can’t stomach another reverb-soaked guitar lick, the Blind Shake will smash that preconception—along with everything else in their path. This Minneapolis band recently caught the attention of Thee Oh Sees’ Jon Dwyer, whose Castle Face Records released their 2013 LP Key to a False Door. The album’s hypnotic, outer-space garage stomp sounds almost robotic—imagine a more tightly wound Coachwhips or a circuit-fried Devo on hyperdrive.”
