The Stranger:
It’s 2009, and many people still can’t deal with the sort of wide-screen, instrumental music that has come to be known as post-rock. The three unassuming guys in Seattle group the Luna Moth would like to gently coax you to check out some adventurous, sans-singer rock over the three-day, 15-band Cumulus Festival, which is happening January 23 to 25 at Chop Suey, King Cobra, and Vera Project (all ages), respectively. If you’ve enjoyed a Mogwai or Sigur Rós concert or collected Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor vinyl, consider yourself a convert to the (mostly) zip-lipped cause. Unlike the founders of Kranky Records, a font of post-rock for about as long as the term has existed (about 15 years), Cumulus’s organizers don’t shy from the term.