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Friendly Fires

The Glass House

By DOUG WALLEN

Published on August 20, 2009 at 2:40am

In their short career, Friendly Fires have done for disco what Vampire Weekend did for Afrobeat: graft it to appealing guitar pop and inspire suburban youths around the world to flail their limbs in clean-cut rapture. This isn’t dance punk or some other hipster permutation, though. It’s pure and reverent, more Bee Gees than DFA.
Sun., Aug. 23, 8 p.m., 2009

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