Monday Night's Music Picks

Since it's late in the day, and the benefit show featuring Sufjan Stevens and Adam Green at Bowery Ballroom is sold out, we're going to quickly highlight one other show happening tonight in Brooklyn. The band is Architecture in Helsinki. The venue is Warsaw.

"The best eight-piece art-hippie collective Australia has ever produced, Architecture in Helsinki, is all about some cultural mishmash. With a membership including a white dread, an unshod singer, a guy with Conor Oberst hair simpering like Fivel going west, and a chick in knee-highs and marching band ruffles, they appear to have been assembled by committee, and their music, clocking in at approximately 33 gpm (that would be "genres per minute"), follows suit." [Pitchfork]

"They're like a demented high-school band that's wandered on stage after a day of gobbling acid and watching Sesame Street." [PopMatters]

"Just watching Architecture in Helsinki set up their equipment was entertainment in its own right, from the untangling of hanging jungle vines to the emptying of a seemingly bottomless bags o' percussion -- tambourines, triangles, cow bells, bicycle horns -- used to supplement standard-issue hand claps, foot stomps, and ooh-la-las." [SPIN]

Dr. Dog and Aqueduct both open the show that starts at 9 PM tonight (Monday). We expect the $12.50 tickets to be available at the door. Stay tuned for Tuesday-Sunday shows tomorrow.