Ladytron, CSS (Sub Pop) September 22, 2006

Headliner Ladytron
Support CSS
Ages All Ages
Doors open at 9PM

tickets @ variety playhouse box office or ticketmaster. http://www.variety-playhouse.rlc.net/

Love 'em or hate 'em, there definitely ain't no one like 'em. Ladytron is a perfectly named group, as its music consists primarily of girls singing -- there's the lady -- and weird robotic synth-derived sounds -- the tron. The name comes from a song off Roxy Music's first album, which came out in 1972, and Ladytron's dance-pop art-primitivism touches on numerous musical points between then and now, including Kraftwerk, Devo, Suicide, Gary Numan, New Order, Man or Astro-man?, and their synth-trash contemporaries, Chicks on Speed, all of it delivered with the self-mocking Eurotrash glamminess pioneered by the Roxies and David Bowie. If you want guitars, you're looking in the wrong place. If you want ironic disco-pop, Ladytron is just your ticket.

Official Website: http://www.variety-playhouse.com/schedule.html#ladytron