KCRW Presents Dry Cleaning - MOVED FROM WILTERN

The Belasco, 1050 South Hill St, Los Angeles. May 21st. KCRW presents Dry Cleaning — the South London post-punk band whose vocalist Florence Shaw delivers spoken word over three musicians who build the kind of dry, anxious, deadpan rock that sounds like nothing else being made right now — at the Downtown LA venue that handles this audience correctly.

Dry Cleaning is the band that makes you lean in. Shaw's delivery is conversational in a way that rewards attention — the non-sequiturs connect when you're paying close enough, and the three musicians underneath are doing something structurally interesting enough that the floor of the Belasco is the right place to hear what it actually is. KCRW programming it is the endorsement from the station that has been making these calls correctly for decades.

Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 21st in Downtown Los Angeles. This tour moved from the Wiltern — the Belasco is the more intimate version of that same crowd in the right room. Get your ticket before the floor goes. KCRW shows sell on the credibility of the programming, and this one is the real thing.