At Capitol Hill Block Party this year, Handsome Furs keyboardist Alexei Perry played like there was an electric current running through
the stage, a circuit that would close if her feet ever touched the ground for more than a second. So while her husband Dan Boeckner
played guitar and sang upstage, flinging himself into the bands Springsteenian synth popwhich is to say: dark yet hopeful, broadly anthemicPerry spent most of the set aloft, seemingly balanced on her keyboard with one hand. At another show, they concluded their set by meeting each other center stage for a long, oblivious embrace. This is a real Us vs. the World sort of band, one animated by a livewire energy that demands rallying around, and as long as theyre playing, first note to farewell kiss, you feel like a part of that Us. With Suuns, Talkdemonic. ERIC GRANDY
Sat., Sept. 10, 8 p.m., 2011
