Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
This event is in the past
Fri., June 17, 6 p.m. 2016
$37 - $38
There's always been something a little fishy about Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, from the band's fraudulent name—the man-bunned frontman was actually born Alex Ebert—to the dusky sound of their Kelvin-filtered folk. Ebert even seems tired of his own shtick on the Los Angeles collective's latest album, the irritatingly titled Person A (as in Persona, get it?), in which his alter ego's name is crossed out on the cover. The record is full of deliberately unappealing twists on their stomp-clap car-commercial sound, which could be construed as a righteous rejection of the Urban Outfitters-core they were responsible for pioneering, but instead it feels like a desperate veiling of a lack of fresh ideas. NED LANNAMANN