On July 12th, The Luminary welcomes visionary Baltimore band Lower Dens to the Elevator Music Series. Touring in support of the new album Nootropics, the band has expanded towards a more motoric palate and expansive sound. “The record as a whole begs for an assessment of all the flaws inherent in our existence, and to imagine a better, more suitable, logical way for humanity to live.”  So says Lower Dens leader Jana Hunter about the band’s stunning new album Nootropics.  It’s an ambitious work, and it delivers  heavily metaphorical, the symmetries and concordances of the lyrics run deep; the luminous lines of the music converge at a point in a future just out of view.  Lower Dens has made music that reconciles fear and uncertainty by freeze-framing it and turning it into a thing of beauty.

Pronounced no-eh-tro-pics, the title refers to a type of drug used to enhance memory or other cognitive functions.  That’s a reference to Hunter’s interest in transhumanism, the use of technology to extend human capabilities.  It could just as easily extend to the music itself  even the band’s newfound keyboards achieve a human-digital synthesis that aptly mirrors the album’s themes.

Supporting will be No Joy and Alan Resnic.

Doors open at 7:30pm and the show will begin at 8pm.

Tickets are $10adv/$12dos and are available online beginning May 3rd at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/246621.

The Luminary presents Moonface for the Elevator Music Series on June 24th, 2012. Moonface is not a band. Moonface is just plain half-old Spencer Krug, in any solo or collaborative projects he’s involved in from now until whenever. In early 2010 the first Moonface EP was released on Jagjaguwar. It was called Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums, and sounds as the title suggests. This past winter, trying to keep sane in his snowed-in Montreal home, Spencer recorded another solo record. This new one is an LP called Organ Music not Vibraphone like I’d Hoped. It also sounds as the title suggests. Spencer Krug has made another record under the name Moonface, this time with the help of some new friends. The third product of an ongoing series of changing collaborations and approaches to tune-making is called With Siinai: Heartbreaking Bravery. Surprise, a two-part title. Let’s bust in to this brothel one door at a time.

Doors at 7:30. Show at 8pm.

Tickets are $10adv/$12dos and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/241841

On April 30th, The Luminary welcomes Lotus Plaza, the side project of Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt, to the Elevator Music Series. The shoegaze-informed ambience immediately resonates with any Deerhunter acolyte, but this isn’t just another tossed-off side project. Lotus Plaza’s sound is fully-formed and explores Lockett’s dead-on melodic sense and expansive songwriting ability. Kid Counselor and Mirror Mode will open the show.

Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.

Tickets are $8adv/$10dos and are available in advance here.

The Elevator Music Series is presented by 88.1 KDHX, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, The Royale and Local Harvest.

On March 20th, The Luminary welcomes EMA to the EMS. Erika M. Anderson grew up in the dive bars and rotten graveyards of South Dakota.  She is a direct descendent of Erik Blood-Axe, the ruthless Viking warrior.  All the boys ask her why she is so tough.  She is 6 feet tall.  She loves the jukebox. St. Louis-based Britches will open the show.

Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.

Tickets are $8adv/$10dos and are available online here.

The Elevator Music Series is presented by 88.1 KDHX, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, The Royale and Local Harvest.

On April 5th, The Luminary welcomes the legendary composer, producer and performer Van Dyke Parks to the Elevator Music Series. Over the course of his 50 year career, Parks has worked with the Beach Boys, Joanna Newsom, Ringo Starr in addition to his own celebrated releases. Join us for this very special seated performance in The Luminary’s gallery space. Seating is limited to 250, so we recommend purchasing in advance.

Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.

Tickets are $22/$25 and are available in advance here.

The Elevator Music Series is presented by 88.1 KDHX, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, The Royale and Local Harvest.

On April 24th, The Luminary welcomes Shabazz Palaces to the Elevator Music Series. The already legendary project of former members of legendary hip hop group Digable Planets will make their first St. Louis stop and we ask that you attend.

Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn’t come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.palaceer pink gators.

DJ Needles and LooseScrewz will open the show.

Doors 7pm. Show at 8pm.

Tickets are $15/$17 and are available in advance here.

The Elevator Music Series is presented by 88.1 KDHX, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, The Royale and Local Harvest.

On March 27th, The Luminary presents The Hive Dwellers, the latest project of the legendary K Records and Beat Happening founder Calvin Johnson. The Hive Dwellers is a band, a combo (as in combination) of disparate individuals who share a common love of rock’n’roll, library cards and railroad travel. The assorted cacophony of membership slides around, and currently includes Gabriel Will and Evan Hashi. In 2012, the Hive Dwellers will be releasing a new LP and touring extensively through the US. As the future unfolds into the conscious mind and continues to fade gently into the past, the Hive Dwellers are present tense, bearing witness to the maraca wilderness of the modern Basement State.

Support for the show will be Dustin Wong (Ponytail), Woodsman and locals Sleep in Sundays.

This is an all-ages show.

Doors at 7pm. Show at 8pm.

Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day of show and are available online here.

The Luminary presents Oberhofer on Friday, April 27th as a part of the monthly Elevator Music Series. 2012 is shaping up to be a big year for Oberhofer. The band just announced the debut record by the Tacoma native, titled Time Capsules II, will be release on March 27th by Glassnote. This album is a bold and exciting statement for Brad Oberhofer, recorded in Brooklyn last fall will legendary producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, The Rolling Stones, Morrisey, among others). Catch the band fresh off of a Coachella appearance. Supporting will be Young Man.

Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show and are available online here.

The Elevator Music Series is presented by 88.1 KDHX, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, The Royale and Local Harvest.

On Sunday, April 1st, The Luminary presents Bear in Heaven for the Elevator Music Series. Marking the first return visit to the curated series, Bear in Heaven will come through in support of their new album “I Love You, It’s Cool.” For album streams and more information, visit www.bearinheaven.com. Young Magic and Doldrums will open the show.

Doors 7p. Show 8p.

Tickets are $12 and are available online HERE.

The Elevator Music Series is presented by 88.1 KDHX, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, The Royale and Local Harvest.

Ring in the New Year right with a proper follow up for our previous sold out NYE events. This year, we’re bringing it old school with a Space Invader-themed party just in time for the Mayan calendar to end. 18andCounting + Billy Brown will be providing the beats you have to move to. Urban Chestnut + Schlafly will be serving you the drinks to help you move. Interactive projects and space invader on the big screen will keep you entertained until the ball drops. We will have a selection of cocktails, wine and champagne by the glass or bottle and each ticket comes with two free drinks.

This event WILL SELL OUT, so buy your tickets in advance.

21+

$25adv/$30door

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