Two brothers in matching outfits treating a dive bar stage like a Vegas residency is not what most people mean by a rock show, and it is considerably more entertaining than what they do mean.
The act is built on total commitment to a bit that would collapse instantly if either of them blinked — choreography, costume changes, direct address to individual audience members, art-school French-disco songs underneath all of it. It is genuinely funny and also genuinely good, which is a much harder combination than either one alone. Two openers, both working stranger angles than the venue's usual booking.
A Tuesday. Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty.
October 20, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring the friend who is hard to impress and secretly loves a spectacle. The performance-heavy end of this city's music scene mostly happens in rooms that hold under a hundred, on nights nobody expects anything to be on.
Two brothers in matching outfits treating a dive bar stage like a Vegas residency is not what most people mean by a rock show, and it is considerably more entertaining than what they do mean.
The act is built on total commitment to a bit that would collapse instantly if either of them blinked — choreography, costume changes, direct address to individual audience members, art-school French-disco songs underneath all of it. It is genuinely funny and also genuinely good, which is a much harder combination than either one alone. Two openers, both working stranger angles than the venue's usual booking.
A Tuesday. Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty.
October 20, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring the friend who is hard to impress and secretly loves a spectacle. The performance-heavy end of this city's music scene mostly happens in rooms that hold under a hundred, on nights nobody expects anything to be on.
Two brothers in matching outfits treating a dive bar stage like a Vegas residency is not what most people mean by a rock show, and it is considerably more entertaining than what they do mean.
The act is built on total commitment to a bit that would collapse instantly if either of them blinked — choreography, costume changes, direct address to individual audience members, art-school French-disco songs underneath all of it. It is genuinely funny and also genuinely good, which is a much harder combination than either one alone. Two openers, both working stranger angles than the venue's usual booking.
A Tuesday. Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty.
October 20, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring the friend who is hard to impress and secretly loves a spectacle. The performance-heavy end of this city's music scene mostly happens in rooms that hold under a hundred, on nights nobody expects anything to be on.