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April 24-30, 2003 musicpicks Angels of Light/Michael Gira
For a guy who once sang the immortal line, ³Nobody rapes you like a cop in jail,² Michael Gira seems to have mellowed as the years have moved on. His old band Swans -- along with Sonic Youth and other New York ³pigfuck² rockers -- deconstructed the sound of trash culture in the "80s and "90s with rants about alienation and depression. When that band folded after a 15-year run, Gira and some Swans cronies regrouped as the electronic-tinged The Body Lovers and then the indie-rocking Angels of Light, which revolves around pensive acoustic guitar, Gira"s wooden vocals and a broad spectrum of instrumentation. The band"s third studio album for Gira"s Young God label, Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home, isn"t so much a diversion from Swans" brooding as it is a reorganization of a young man"s passion due to experience and maturity. A solo Gira will take North By Northwest"s stage on Friday, along with Angels of Light and labelmate and stream-of-consciousness singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart. Fri., April 25, 10 p.m., $10, with Devendra Banhart, North By Northwest, 7165 Germantown Ave., 215-248-1000. 
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