PRISS & Infinity at Spaceland

Irony alert: Spaceland, which plays host to some of the city’s best indie and post-indie rock shows, will Give the People What They Want tonight when two cover bands offer eye-winking performances of Kiss and Journey songs. We just coined that term — Post-Indie — by the way, and will figure out exactly what we mean by that in the near future. Perhaps the definition of Post-Indie will comprise transcending irony and long-tail theory to create a music that kowtows to the People, that uncovers those basest of musical desires — melody, chorus, lyrical platitudes, clichés aplenty — and offers them honestly, sans irony, with great enthusiasm and without fear of embarrassment or hipster dismissal. Like Journey, and Kiss, two bands of the ’70s/’80s that will outlive a million Clap Your Hands Say Yeahs. So Infinity is a female-fronted tribute to Journey; maybe you can imagine what that will sound like. And Priss is a female-fronted tribute to Kiss, and maybe you can imagine what that will sound like. There are fake mustaches involved, apparently. And fake beards. And “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” and “Beth” and “Any Way You Want It.” Sound dubious? Come on: It’s Fourth of July weekend, the perfect time to celebrate America in all its basest glory.  (Randall Roberts)