Living Athlete+Carney
by Mikael Wood
The nice-boy Brits in Athlete put out a couple of cool records in the early ’00s that expertly combined Coldplay-style melodrama with Blur-like pop smarts; their latest, last year’s Black Swan, is handsome but kind of humdrum. The dude who fronts L.A.-based openers Carney is playing Spiderman in U2 and Julie Taymor’s upcoming Broadway musical.
Mon., May 31, 9 p.m., 2010