1. The Drums – Best Friend
2. Ringo Deathstarr – You Don’t Listen
3. The Strokes – Two Kinds of Happiness
4. Las Robertas – Ghost Lover
5. Dirty Beaches – True Blue
6. Weezer – Turning Up the Radio
7. Benoit Pioulard - Shouting Distance
8. The Radio Dept. – Pulling Our Weight
9. Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers
10. Cut Copy – Where I’m Going
11. LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
12. Gold Panda – You

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Belong

This buzz-generating Brooklyn indie pop quartet returns with more of the same on their sophomore effort – namely, excellent guitars, incredibly catchy melodies and a solid top-to-bottom mix of 90s-era alt rock.

3 Favorite Tracks: Heart in Your Heartbreak; Even in Dreams; My Terrible Friend.

For Fans Of: Weezer; Beach Fossils, Girls, The Depreciation Guild; Black Tambourine.

1. The Joy Formidable – Whirring
2. The Kills – Satellite
3. The Ponys – Small Talk
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Soft Shock
5. Las Robertas – History is Done
6. The Dodos – Sleep
7. Josh Bray – The River Song
8. Film School – When I’m Yours
9. Tapes ‘n Tapes – Badaboom
10. Crystal Stilts – Departure
11. Kurt Vile – Baby’s Arms
12. DeVotchKa – 100 Other Lovers

1. Yuck – The Wall
2. Dum Dum Girls – Wrong Feels Right
3. Reading Rainbow – Must Be Dreaming
4. Deerhunter – Fountain Stairs (Live)
5. Gauntlet Hair – Heave
6. Beach Fossils – What a Pleasure
7. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
8. Film School – Heart Full of Pentagons
9. The Fresh & Onlys – Until the End of Time
10. Japanese Motors - Better Trends
11. Guided By Voices – Everywhere With Helicopter
12. Flogging Molly – Requiem for a Dying Song

1. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Frank AB
2. The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
3. The Black Keys – Tighten Up
4. Cloud Nothings – Not Important
5. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldier
6. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices
7. Beady Eye - Four Letter Word
8. Tapes ‘n Tapes – Just Drums
9. Minks – Funeral Song
10. A Place to Bury Strangers – Keep Slipping Away
11. Royal Bangs – War Bells
12. Tennis – Baltimore

Dum Dum Girls · Minks · Dirty Beaches

February 25, 2011

The Magic Stick

Detroit

Retro-rockers, Dum Dum Girls, rolled into Detroit as part of a U.S. tour to support their new EP, He Gets Me High (out 03/01/11 via Sup Pop). With Brooklyn’s Minks and Vancouver’s Dirty Beaches opening, the foursome delivered about 60 minutes of reverb-fueled sonic delight.

Highs & Lows

• Alex Hungtai of Dirty Beaches covering Johnny Cash and combing his greased up pompadour between songs
• The incredibly tight sound of Minks
• Dum Dum Girls opening with The Rolling Stones “Play With Fire” and closing with The Smith’s “There Is A Light”
• Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls sarcastically referencing the crowd’s “enthusiasm” early on in the set
• The super intoxicated blonde chick that was desperately trying to turn the event into a Rage Against the Machine show. How’s your hangover?

Hipster Factor: 9.1 (out of 10)