Sugarland has made a career out of slyly subverting pop-country conventions. The duo's 2008 album, Love on the Inside, was recorded with minimal overdubs—a rarity in the overproduced world of modern country—and though last year's The Incredible Machine sported a glossier studio sound, it was perhaps the most oddly themed mainstream country record of the last half-decade, loaded with Victorian imagery and steampunk fantasies. It featured the bubblegum hit “Stuck Like Glue.”
Sugarland w/ Sara Bareilles
Tonight @ Marcus Amphitheater, Summerfest, 7:30 p.m.