Local psych outfit Headroom is a veritable guitar army. Three guitars, bass, drums, and a guy on what looked like an old Royal typewriter. Sludge and fuzz drenched instrumentals are the M.O. of Headroom. At one point, the churning wall of guitar squall morphed into a wordless drone metal reading of the Dead's Wharf Rat.
Xiu Xiu is an avant rock trio that has been plying their oddball craft for twenty years. Tributes to Nina Simone, film music, and a recent stint doing the music of Twin Peaks in their trademark drone metal delivery. On this evening Xiu Xiu was a duo, a diminutive Asian woman on drums and synths, and a quirky male singer on caterwauling guitar. The singer's schizophrenic style reminded me of Pere Ubu, Fred Schneider, David Byrne, Wayne Newton, Norman Bates (for his violent stabbing of his lone cymbal), and even the guy from Spandau Ballet at times. Good set played to a packed crowd. Wild cover of ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man was the show highlight.
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