Arts Desk » Apollo Sunshine http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk News and Criticism on D.C. and Beyond Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Apollo Sunshine Tonight @ DC9 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2008/10/09/apollo-sunshine-tonight/ http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2008/10/09/apollo-sunshine-tonight/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:13:17 +0000 Bobby Allyn http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/?p=1156 Berklee-trained neo-psychedelic rockers Apollo Sunshine play tonight at DC9 before heading to London for a European tour. Their sound is a throwback to ‘60s-era underground pop/rock, combining big fuzz with eclectic orchestration. Their songs swell with wah-wah and bounce with heavy echo and break into bouts of chaos, blending the Violent Femmes and the Kinks—a refreshing change for a moment saturated with formulaic indie dance bands. As Sam Cohen recently told Paste: “We were much more imagining things, considering all possibilities, and that led to, ‘you know what’d be great here is a whole string section, or a bunch of horns,’ and just going for it and indulging in every far-out idea we had.”

The show starts at 9 p.m.; tickets are $12.

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