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Junior Boys/Max Tundra

Wed., May 6, 8:30 p.m., $12-$14, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

Published: Apr 28, 2009

rock/pop

On the bedroom electronic pop spectrum, Max Tundra's giddy, fractured Day-Glo excesses mark a near-polar opposite from the Junior Boys' elegant, restrained tech-soul. The Canadian duo's latest, Begone Dull Care, marks a slight holding pattern from prior glories, though Jeremy Greenspan's lovelorn croon still hits that sweet spot. But watch for Tundra — making his Philly debut in support of 2008's delirious, painstakingly programmed Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino) — to steal the spotlight with his infectiously energetic gesticulations, ADD instrument-swapping and a stage presence that's at once commanding and preposterous.

Wed., May 6, 8:30 p.m., $12-$14, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

 

 

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