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

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.