This show is crazy: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life — an exhaustive history of ’80s-indie giants from Sonic Youth to Fugazi to Black Flag — the Bowery Ballroom is hosting a one-night-only parade of modern alt. superstars covering the bands profiled in the book: Ted Leo playing Minor Threat, Tune-Yards playing Sonic Youth, and someone named Delicate Steve handling the Minutemen. It’s all happening May 22; per Brooklyn Vegan, the lineup so far:
Nat Baldwin, David Longstreth and Brian McOmber play Black Flag
Delicate Steve plays the Minutemen
Ted Leo plays Minor Threat
Titus Andronicus plays the Replacements
Tune-Yards plays Sonic Youth
Dan Deacon plays the Butthole Surfers
St. Vincent plays Big Black
Wye Oak plays Dinosaur Jr
Buke & Gass plays Fugazi
Other bands who got chapters in OBCBYL: Mission of Burma, Mudhoney, Beat Happening, Hüsker Dü. They should get Odd Future to do Beat Happening. Tix are on sale Friday — more info here. As for the current slate, the immediate highlights here are fairly obvious — Titus! The Replacements! — but look out for the St. Vincent/Big Black pairing: Annie Clark can shred and snarl with the best of them, and knows from badass cover songs: