Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Weekend Events Roundup Jan. 28 to 30

Music

The emerging two-piece act Daymoths has attracted a small cult following since its recent formation in the Twin Cities, and they’ll be performing at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Little Munich, 806 Lake Ave., Lake Worth.  Comprised of

drummer Ollie Dodge and pianist Emily Dantuma – who share the band’s vocal duties – Daymoths has a stark, mopey indie-rock sound, bursting at the fringes of its Cat Power aesthetic with Klaus Nomi-style operatic expressionism. You can download four songs from the group’s website, and click around it further to see Dantuma and Dodge’s blog, where they write about their recent travels – including their experiences at Dada in Delray Beach and Churchill’s in Little Haiti. The cover charge at Little Munich is usually $5.

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Taking a break from performing at every other Vans Warped Tour, snotty punk stalwarts NOFX will play a rare club date Friday night at Revolution Live in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Musically, NOFX has changed its tried-and-true formula of melodic vocals laid atop lightning-fast, skate-ready riffage very little, but its lyrics have gone in a more sociopolitical direction in the past dozen years. My favorite piece of theirs is a 1999 EP called “The Decline” a 19-minute, single-track social and political indictment that ranks as the second-longest punk song on record. The group’s current tour supports its latest full-length album and EP, “Coaster”and “Cokie the Clown,” respectively. The show starts at 7 p.m., and The Bouncing Souls and Old Man Markley will open. Tickets are $24.

Comedy

Political satirists The Capitol Steps are back in town, partway through the annual residency at the Kravis Center’s

Rinker Playhouse, 701 Okeechobee Road, West Palm Beach. The sketch-and-song revue doesn’t have George W. Bush to kick around anymore, but it has maintained its comedy chops under the Obama Administration. While cofounder Elaina Newport told me in an interview a few years ago that the party in power usually receives the brunt of their satire, the group’s most recent material can’t help but take aim at the conservative fringe, with song parodies such as “Battle Hymn of the Tea Public” and “Loonies of the Right.” Tickets are $40, and the show runs through Feb. 13.

Art

This weekend, and Monday, mark your last chance to view “Graphix,” an exhibition dedicated to the art of the graphic novel, on display at Florida Atlantic University’s Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. Graphic novels can be defined broadly as comic books for grown-ups, and legends such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore are taken as seriously as establishment literary figures in many circles. The exhibit, which sprawls across all three floors of the library, includes works dating back to a 1929 “novel in pictures” titled “God’s Book.” The library will conclude the exhibition’s run with a discussion titled “The Graphic Novel as Sequence Image Story” at 7 p.m. Monday on the third floor. Admission is free. For information, call 561/297-0226.

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