Trying to find a stellar new indie pop band in 2010 feels a little like showing up to the last hour of the last day of a record sale and assuming therell be something decent left over. Sure, it looks like theres a lot to choose from, but start digging through the stacks and it turns out to be all the Beatles greatest hits and a gnawed-on copy of Thriller. Discovering a fresh young band like Seattle’s Ivan & Alyosha feels a little like walking into that record sale and finding a mint copy of The Gilded Palace of Sin. Though Ivan & Alyosha has only released one EP, The Verse, the Chorus, the bands about to head into the studio to make a full-length album that may well prove to be a much-needed shot of adrenalin for a tired genre. With The Nine Tailors, Pickwick. SARA BRICKNER
Thu., May 6, 6 p.m., 2010
