Schubas
3159 N Southport Ave
773.525.2508
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White Rabbits
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Tuesday May 20, 2008 (9pm)
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- Price
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$12
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Although White Rabbits' debut, Fort Nightly, wriggled onto countless 2007 year-end lists (and with good reason), the sextet's Carribbean-fried Walkmen-isms were born for the stage. The Rabbits are stunning musicians and showmen to match, with aggressively tickled ivories, dueling lead singers, and layer upon layer of percussion. It's a study in instrumental excess, to be sure — does any band really need two drummers? — but the group inhabits a correspondingly decadent made-up world, where Gatsby-era accoutrements (old-timey suits and hats, lyrics about social niceties gone rotten) adorn dark, catchy indie-pop tunes. Haunting, Conor Oberst-style singer/songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson opens.
