Critic's Choice

Related Content

• Disco Biscuits side project Conspirator plans a tour
  February 9, 2012
• Disco Biscuits added to Eco Music Festival lineup on Saturday, July 2 in Snowmass
  May 29, 2011
• Disco Biscuits open pop-up store on Broadway
  May 24, 2011
• Hunter Pritchett, exec chef of Luca d'Italia, on bum piss and fried fish
  January 25, 2012
• Review: Disco Biscuits at Red Rocks, 5/28/11
  May 30, 2011

More About

• The Disco Biscuits
• Dance

For all the differences that seem to exist between their audiences, jam bands and dance artists have more than a few things in common: Both create roving, spacey sounds that give virtue to aimlessness and repetition, and both draw audiences who use the music to channel a certain feeling -- call it a vibe or a groove, depending on which camp you’re in. SoundTribe Sector 9, Thursday, October 26, at the Bluebird Theater, is among a new group of sound artists who have brilliantly combined the hi-tech world of electronic dance music with earthy, free-range jamming. Since early this year, the Atlanta-born five-piece has been touring in support of Offered Schematics Suggesting Peace, sometimes paired with kindred spirits the Disco Biscuits. Yet the Tribe’s combination of improvised keyboards and worldly percussion with bass, drum and guitar has more in common with jazz and Jerry than the Biscuits’ funk. It’s still beat-driven, though, which simply means that the hippies will have to make some room for the dance-floor kids. Maybe we can all get along.