Sensitive male hipsters love Michael Angelakos electro-pop band for the following reasons: the ladies dig anything resembling The Postal Service, the ladies fall for Angelakos falsetto vocals that hide lyrics full of misery, and you can shove Passion Pits debut Manners in any Owl City-loving teenyboppers face. Best of all are Angelakos rhetorical grief-stricken questions like Were swimming in a flood, you know? and Whose side are you on?/ What side is this anyway? (Double whammy!). Admit it, bouncing around to 8-bit video game music with wails of heartache triggers memories of playing Nintendo while thinking about that one girl who already had a boyfriend. With Mister Heavenly, We Barbarians, Pepper Rabbit. BRYDEN MCGRATH
Tue., Nov. 30, 8 p.m., 2010
