BACK IN SESSION: September’s here, calling students back to their desks and all rockers, hip-hoppers, trip-hoppers, reggaeists, and dubbers to the Santa Barbara stages. This Positively State Street is a roll call of some of the great musicians in attendance for this week’s sessions.
Remember Future Islands? They’re back from the future with synth-pop anthems, heading to the Lobero Theatre (33 E. Canon Perdido St.) on Saturday, September 15, at 7 p.m. Students, take note: Future Islands began as a bright idea while guitarist William Cashion was helping singer Samuel Herring study for an art history exam.
Since their studious days, Future Islands have earned many a fan with pop epics such as “Seasons (Waiting On You)” and in their career have risen to high Coachella ranks and sold-out shows worldwide. With the band’s floaty, warm synths and galloping drums building the danceable architecture underneath Herring’s triumphal voice, it’ll likely be the kind of Lobero show where people are up and moving. Go, and you will be able to say that you can remember dancing in September.