Tucson musical act Apocalypso perform popular music via three steel drummers (apparently, they’re called “pannists”) and a drummer. It is exactly what it sounds like, but yet with a little extra touch of awesome. Check them out tonight at Sakura on Tanque Verde tonight, starting at 6 pm.

Here is their cover of Erasure’s “A Little Respect”:

This article appears in Dec 23-29, 2010.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

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  1. Thanks for the plug! Yes, in Trinidad (the birthplace of these instruments) they’re usually called steelpans – or simply pans – rather than steeldrums.

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