Spiritualized and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

If there are two millennial rock ‘n’ roll bands you need to know about, here they are–in one convenient location for your listening pleasure. Have you been wondering whatever happened to smart guitar rock, and whether there was any gas left in the old engine of creative evolution for the six-string? Spiritualized has been around for more than a decade, led by the bizarre boy-genius Jason Spaceman who somehow manages to combine psychedelic noise-mongering with Baptist brimstone. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are newcomers cut from the cloth of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground–yes, it was about time for someone to sound like Lou Reed and the Velvets again, wasn’t it? You’ll hear previews of BRMC on Drive-105. But for some reason they’re not spinning “Whatever Happened to My Rock ‘n’ Roll,” the first song in 15 years that makes us spontaneously pogo around the office like it was Goofy’s circa 1981. First Avenue, (612) 338-8388