MUSIC
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 & 13, 2018
9:00 PM


WEDNESDAY:  Elsewhere
599 Johnson Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn

THURSDAY:  Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan

WEDNESDAY:  $25 advance; $26 door
https://www.elsewherebrooklyn.com/events/2018-09-12-rina-sawayama/

THURSDAY:  $20
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1710227

I should absolutely love Rina Sawayama.  She does highly self-aware, culture-and-media savvy meta-pop, electronic bubblegum division.  So why does she strike me as an also-ran compared to, say, SOPHIE?  It's the songs:  even when you're self-aware and meta, you still need them.  I'll bet she puts on a terrific show, though.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Wednesday in Bushwick, I'm going to engage in stupid thememanship and send you to Ichiran -- where the solo ramen-slurping isolation booths seem congruent with Rina Sawayama's worldview.  Thursday on the LES, everybody is just loving the fried chicken at The Usual.