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Tortoise are the original gangsters of slow-blooming jams and big Chicago-style indie rock band-geek moves. They founded a sound that’s made its way – consciously or not – into the guitars and minds of everyone east of the Mississippi writing heavily structured soundtrack music that features huge pedal boards. No instrumental rock band has covered as much ground since, or, I dare say, can. Every one of their songs is streamable from their label Thrill Jockey’s website.

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore saw to the timely reactivation of the The Notekillers three years back. They were playing the most frenetic over-rock you can swallow whole in the 70s, and their members have only been practicing since disbanding in “Ëœ81. They’re back together now that music has caught up enough to handle them. Listen to The Zipper and tell me you don’t wonder what these characters have going on now that it’s thirty years later.

Go see these bands tonight. Tortoise, the band my roommates were all going totally out of their minds for in the year 2002, and the Notekillers, the 70s instrumental no-wave crew, both at World Cafe Live. Sixteen bucks.

World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104
http://www.r5productions.com/shows.html