Dance-punk duo back from the dead
November 13, 2014 - 9:19 pm
Lubricating dance floors with scuzzy bass lines and buckets of hormones, Toronto duo Death From Above 1979 make the kind of libidinal, raw-throated skronk suggestive of a rock dive conjoined to a discotheque.
“There’s nothing sacred to me,” singer-drummer Sebastien Grainger notes on “Virgins” from the band’s first record in a decade, the recently released “The Physical World.”
If anything, though, his words feel a little redundant: The way these two bed hop between punk, electro and stoner rock belies any inhibitions.
Added bonus for the group’s Vegas gig: Following their set, there will be a free show by MSTRKRFT, a dance-punk duo founded by Death From Above bassist Jesse Keeler.
Now, that’s more Canadian merriment than any of us deserve.
Contact reporter Jason Bracelin at jbracelin@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0476. Follow on Twitter @JasonBracelin.
Preview
Death From Above 1979
9 p.m. Nov. 15
Brooklyn Bowl at The Linq, 3545 Las Vegas Blvd. South
$27.25-$32 (702-862-2695)