Broadcast. San Serac.

I caught Broadcast with Atlas Sound the other night in Boston, where crowds continue to be fickle and passive. Openers The Selmanaires (who later doubled as Bradford Cox's backing band) played some very respectable psych pop. Music to dance to. Nary a shoulder twitched nor foot tapped. People were equally unresponsive to the first half of Broadcast's set, a glorious mess of noisy experimentation that wouldn't seem out of place in a Western Mass basement. More applause for the group's poppier material. Check this run-through of "Corporeal."



Fantastic. Atlas Sound, though, was disappointing. The dudes indie rock-ified the weirder A.S. songs and turning even "Walkabout" dull and dirge-like. Nothing against Cox et al., but we wound up leaving midway through the set.





While I'm at it: hats off to Eric Hnatow and San Serac for energizing the small crowd last Saturday at UMass. Dudes brought some serious enthusiasm to Earth Foods and, while not too many showed up to see it, those who did really enjoyed it.





Photos of the elusive DJ Double Dad remain unavailable.