Touring with the Mates, Brooklyn's Ladybug Transistor is a prime example of a band that's continued to quietly turn out more mature music on each pass. Their new self-titled album is a set of easy Saturday songs perfect for when Lee Hazlewood feels too much like Johnny Cash-lite, and anything labeled Elephant 6 sounds too much like college rock. Vocalists Gary Olson and Sasha Bell trade off, Olson's improbable baritone oddly awkward for someone so prone to crooning, Bell's diction so classically '60s, the production could not have been handled any other way but in Ladybug's satisfyingly retro style. Fellow Brooklynites Palomar, comprising three females on the front lines, are known for the occasional fuzz-harmony masterpiece and some other stuff in between--with less of an off-putting attitude than your neighborhood riot grrrl. Overall, the bill promises more song-wielding women than your average night at Rubber Gloves--security will be on hand to guard against any attacks on this, our precious national melody reserve.
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