An Acoustic Evening with the Trashcan Sinatras
Shank Hall 1434 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
Event time: 8pm
Price: $20
Scottish rockers Trashcan Sinatras formed outside of Glasgow in 1987 during the heyday of U.K. indie-pop, and like seemingly every band from that corner of the world at the time, they recorded some truly wonderful, jangly little guitar-pop tunes. Despite some flattering comparisons to The Smiths, they never made a huge impression in America (their biggest exposure may have been an appearance on “Beavis and Butt-head”), but the years have been kind to them. Richly produced with Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, the band’s crowd-funded 2016 album, Wild Pendulum, is a delight—the kind of late-career triumph that most acts from their era would be proud to claim as their own.