Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview

  The blurbing of Fun Fun Fun Fest

• SATURDAY PREVIEW

• Okkervil River

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• The New Pornographers

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Neurosis

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Emma Pollock

  BY DARCIE STEVENS

• Saviours

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Witchcraft

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Of Montreal

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Busdriver

  BY DARCIE STEVENS

• SUNDAY PREVIEW

• Ocote Soul Sounds

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• MC Chris

  BY MARC SAVLOV

• Against Me!

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Battles

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Murder City Devils

  BY DARCIE STEVENS

• The Cave Singers

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• The Saints

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Celebration

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

Celebration

Celebration has always been a bit tribal, but the Baltimore trio makes it literal on its second album. Produced by TV on the Radio's David Sitek and much like his own band, The Modern Tribe is awash in big, fat layers of rhythm and beat. Vocalist Katrina Ford excels in a soulful howl, and where it sounded seductive on 2005's self-titled debut, here she gets animalistic and explores new territory, huffing, grunting, and yelping like a witchy, blown-out Karen O, especially on "Tame the Savage." What she's singing about is mostly a mystery, but it makes the voodoo of "Evergreen" and grind of multi-instrumentalist Sean Antanaitis' organ and David Bergander's drums all the more feral. It never quite rips the flesh, though; "Hands off My Gold," its layers of psych and Afrobeat crunching against dance-floor-ready toms, goes straight for the pleasure center. (2:45pm, Stage 1)