- Wye Oak
The weekend of nice weather we just had feels like an occasion worth celebrating, and there’s no better way to continue to toast the end of a brutal winter than with live music. Fortunately you’ve got plenty of opportunities to do just that during the next few days.
“This Swedish trio reflects a sun-baked American stoner-rock style back at us from the cold, dark north,” writes Monica Kendrick. “After three solid albums in the late 2000s, the great things the band seemed to promise didn’t materialize, at least not soon enough—the 2009 full-length Maniawas their last new material for four years. (It was a little easier to wait thanks to two combination reissues of early EPs and LPs.) Truckfighters have spent a lot of time on the road and gone through a Spinal Tap-like procession of drummers, but judging by the new Universe (Fuzzorama), they’re stronger for it.”
