Sometimes you see a bill and scratch your head and go "Huh?" While there are times where tours are actually put together because of an artist's mutual respect for one another, they're just as often likely to be put together by management, lawyers, publishing companies or random bean counters in the record label offices. The latter seemed to be the case last night at El Corazon, with pop visionaries Rubik opening up for the mall-pop emo-lite of Lights.

Rubik is a Finnish quartet who write expansive pop songs that are built on enough major key sunshine to be immediately accessible/hummable, but put just the right amount of weird textural elements atop them (horn sections, vintage science movie bleeps and bloops) and unexpected hairpin turns in them to make them seem as if they're from another world.