It was like the perfect mix of crunchy party funk, baby-making R&B, and bombastic soul music - a potent combination of styles. Someone needs to bottle this up and market it as a two-in-one aphrodisiac/antidepressant. Here's a reasonable public health request for Indianapolis: give us either medical marijuana or a more constant stream of shows like this. Or both.
Indianapolis native Bashiri Asad assembled a line-up that included a young Meters-style funk band, Deep Fried 5, as well as The Right Now - a Chicago group so awesome it would be impossible to describe them accurately without filling the rest of this review with line-after-line of the word "SOULFUL" repeated in all-caps. That's how excited I am about these guys.
Quick warning: before you Google the names of these bands, I should say that all three of them has a web presence that is either very limited or else a poor representation of their talent. In the case of Asad and his band Xenobia Green, it's definitely the latter: onstage, he's Raphael Saadiq smooth - the ladies in the audience were literally cooing - but on YouTube, he's got some hilariously corny music videos. Like Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now" level of corny. Okay, maybe not that bad, but it's admittedly not the best impression for a prospective concert-goer.
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