Bowery Ballroom

showview

Sun 9/30

18+

Doors 7:30pm

$15

http://myspace.com/akak
http://www.akronfamily.com/
Akron/Family is one of those exasperatingly unknowable bands. They've concocted an image, all right -- check out their MySpace page or the Young God Records one, and you will quickly be advised that they are "four extremely nice, sincere and well-mannered young men from rural America who came to New York City in 2002 to make music." But other than that and the occasional unfounded rumor that they practice a made-up cultish religion called AK (pronounced "ack"), the only way to know these apparently affable 20-something fellows -- Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton, Dana Janssen, and Ryan Vanderhoof -- is through their music, which falls squarely into the freak folk category launched, in the minds of the popular culture, anyway, single-handedly by Devendra Banhart. - Tammy La Gorce, All Music Guide