Tonight, at Marble Bar, fans of underground pop music are treated to an exceptional bill. Failed Flowers do not play out very much, because lead dude Fred Thomas has gone and exiled himself to Canada. It might even be their last show for a very long time, as cofounder Autumn Wetli has announced an intention to decamp for the West Coast soon.
This is a bill where if you miss it, you'll look back at the lovingly scrawled poster after seeing it on a friend's wall a few years from now and think, "Damn why did I miss that??!"
Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...