The Silos (w/ Coal Palace Kings)

Heralded at their outset by Rolling Stone as “America’s Best New Band,” the Silos mix punk, roots, rock, and sage art-damaged truth-telling. The Silos have also thereby created a sound that’s hard to pin down. “The band’s austere style inflects the astringent twang of The Velvet Underground with the drone of R.E.M. and adds countryish echoes that recall Gram Parsons,” offered The New York Times.

“We get compared to everybody,” says main Silo Walter Salas-Humara. “To some people, we’re a country band. To other people, we’re a rock band. To other people, we’re an acoustic band. Some people think we’re rootsy, and others think we’re arty.” He pauses to take a breath and to chuckle at the breadth of it all. ‘We’re all of those things.”