Amidst a slew of competition, Australias Tame Impala might just be the best band doing the insurgent psychedelic rock thing right now. Thats because although their music is a retro throwback to the psych-jam sound of the 70s, its also filtered through their own youthful lenses its swirling and kaleidoscopic, but with a sunny pop flair and accessibility think the Beatles, jamming with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. (It helps that frontman Kevin Parkers vocals at times sound spookily like John Lennons). The bands first LP, this years heady Innerspeaker, was recorded in a beach shack on the Indian Ocean in Perth and fresh and vintage at the same time. Every song on the record vibrates with spongy, reverb-soaked guitars and drums and hypnotic, solar-powered grooves. With Stardeath and the White Dwarfs. ERIN K. THOMPSON
Fri., Dec. 10, 8 p.m., 2010
