Coda Club, having recently closed its doors, reopens this weekend under the name Decibel Underground, with New Jersey funk, house and hip house DJ Kenny Dope on the wheels of steel to inaugurate the new setup on Friday, May 8.
On Saturday night, Zoobizarre hosts the penultimate edition of international bass night Boomboxx, this month with resident mastermind Khiasma crate-digging the cumbia, kuduro, reggaeton and beyond along with fellow locals Maysr and Tashish. Also Saturday, the fascinating and debaucherous Larry Tee appears at Panthère Noire for the latest edition of Grind House. Tee is credited with inventing the term “electroclash,” co-producing the B52’s first single “Rock Lobster,” co-writing chart hits with RuPaul and a mountain of other miscellaneous musical trivia. Just down the street that night at Studio Juste Pour Rire, the latest edition of matchmaking, heartbreaking, orgasm-faking, date-flaking monthly French ou Meurs goes off.
Word to the wise this week: save some juice for Monday night because Baltimore’s Future Islands are back in town for an appearance at la Sala Rossa. Their 2008 Wave Like Home is a fabulous, frenetic collision between loft-party synthpop, emotive new wave and lo-fi punk rock. Each three-minute track comes off like a wasted, desperate New Order single with catchy synth solos, explosive bass lines and wailing vocals that are somewhere between Bad Brains’ H.R. and a parody of Glenn Danzig. They reportedly wowed crowds at the Baltimore Round Robin on the last night of Pop Montreal last year, but I unfortunately didn’t make it out, already half dead from the rest of the festival. I won’t miss my chance this time, and the effort will be rewarded with appearances by lauded hardware tweaker Dan Deacon and cacophonic drone percussion crew Teeth Mountain.
