Tongs

Of course, they’re going to be playing at the Bank of America Pavvy, which is way too big of a gig for my liking. But I’m “into” this band enough to go see them at fucking Fenway. (Actually not sure which is bigger – could someone who’s not a Boston n00b like me clear this one up?) At any rate, the “seeing them in a House of Blues-sized club” ship left port many moons ago, so whatevs. I’m a bit disappointed that Spoon, who’s opening for them at a few other venues, won’t be there with ‘em, but I can dig it. Hopefully they’ll get someone of relative equal awesomeness to join up for Beantown.

I’m kinda wondering if this is indicative of the “death of indie,” that bands like Arcade Fire, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, and the Black Keys are playing at huge-ass pavilions like this. Maybe my previous post about indie still being among the living was totes wrong. Alternately, maybe everyone’s just trying to give mad props to Animal Collective by hitting up the “real” Merriweather Post Pavilion via embarking on a pavvy tour. Or it could be record labels “cost-cutting” by holding concerts in highly populated areas like Boston so indie-kindred from hundreds of miles away will have to congregate at a few large, metropolitan shows.

Or, they’re trying to round us all up, gas us, and bring us to a top secret relevance-testing laboratory where we’ll have to listen and respond to new potential buzz genres so as to help spin the wheels of the Hype Machine. Hmm…

Anyway, if y’all are interested, tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am. You can get them at Live Nation and blow a buttload of Ticketbastard service charges or, if you’re in town, you might as well pop down to the Orpheum Theater’s box office on Hamilton Place (across from the Common).