Tuesday, April 8: Be Calm Honcho

Le Voyeur

By Rev. Adam McKinney on April 3, 2014

What little information there is to be found about Seattle quartet, Be Calm Honcho, indicates an almost off-putting confidence for such a young band. Led by vocalist Shannon Harney's insinuating lilt, Be Calm Honcho create indie rock that drifts dreamily along, punctuated by stabs of surfy guitars and winsome oohs and aahs. Occasionally, Be Calm Honcho threaten to fall too close to the cutesy side of things, personality-wise (this is the kind of band that the boyfriend/girlfriend founding members essentially started the band as an extended series of flirts), but the music is sandpapery enough to dirty up the sweetness before it become too cloying. Admittedly the amount of music they have made available online is not much to go on, but I'd be interested in checking out their forthcoming LP.

BE CALM HONCHO, w/ Oh Rose!, New Slang, Judson Claiborne, 9 p.m., Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, $5, 360.943.5710