MODERN KIN, TANGERINE, RILLA
(Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison) See My, What a Busy Week!


MAC DeMARCO, DINNER, METH TEETH
(Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside) All right, here goes: Mac DeMarco makes me feel conflicted and old. I've come to enjoy his sophomore record, last year's Salad Days, an undeniably fun admixture of modern indie jangle and '60s-pop serial plagiarism (the title track is literally "Picture Book" by the Kinks). But I fucking hate the effect he's had as a cultural signpost for the "chill generation," and his carefully forged, laughably transparent "indifferent average guy" persona, to which, for some reason, a giant portion of the music-listening community still seems susceptible—in spite of the fact that it's the most tired indie-guy put-on ever. (A famous dude desperately pretending he isn't famous is infinitely more pretentious than someone owning his fame. Give me a Paul Stanley over a Stephen Malkmus facsimile any day of the week). All that said... his music videos are pretty funny! And Salad Days is, at times, a genuinely great pop record, even if DeMarco will always just be the Billy Joel to Ariel Pink's Elton John. MORGAN TROPER See My, What a Busy Week! and All-Ages Action!