Dirty Beaches After giving his music multiple chances, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that you either “get it or you don’t” when it comes to the artistic style of Alex Zhang Hungtai, otherwise known as Dirty Beaches. His music is lo-fi and intensely repetitive, his singing lacks range and is often in mumbles or off-key screams and his sparse guitar playing is amateur in the way of being out of tune, out of rhythm and off-kilter. Clearly, I’m on the “I don’t get it” side of things. With Modern Primitives and The Dirty Specials. $8. Snug Harbor. www.snugrock.com.
This article appears in May 3-9, 2011.
