Giving you the music a day early:
The New Pornographers’ Daniel Bejar’s full-time, side project Destroyer, a Canadian-based indie rock band that crosses chamber pop with ’70s jazz rock and ’80s New Wave for a truly unique sound, is stopping at Stickyz. The show will start at 8:30 p.m. with opening act The War on Drugs, a Philadelphia band that layers on the best influences of American rock music and then strips it bare, channeling it through a Sonic Youth funnel. Tickets for the 21-and-up show are $10 in advance and $12 day of show.
Reggae music in South Africa? Sure. In fact, Tidal Waves, the band appearing at Rev Room, is known as one of South Africa’s top reggae acts, a collection of five musicians led by Jacob “Zakes” Wulana on guitar, vocals, harmonica and vuvuzela (Yes. Vuvuzela.), and Sam “Drumbo” Shoai on vocals and drum kit. It’s uniquely South African reggae, filled with politically charged lyrics but still highly danceable music. The opening act is to be announced but the music will start at 8:30 p.m. Tickets for the all-ages event are $10.
Here’s Destroyer with their “Kaputt”:

