Ithaca, Independent Rock City
Goodness me, but the new Hold Steady album is pretty rockin. I think they've actually gone more E Street than the last album. You all understand I mean that in the best way possible, right?
This Wednesday, we've got a show at the store which I will unfortunately be unable to attend. Paul Buchholz will be playing with Tim Hazen. It should be nice, I'm sad that I'll be stuck slingin' drinks. After that, it's a couple weeks til our next show, which is Barn Burning from Providence. They're heartbreakers, those kids.
The always impressive Mr. G, who survived a weekend that would have killed lesser men and still managed to wail through Little Black Egg on the Commons and slug back chardonnay after the band stopped and the man upstairs wept on us a bit, is currently on his way to the shop with 2000 copies of Chapter and Verse. Soon, very soon we will spread it across the northeast like some beautiful trembling virus. Being a simple and physically oriented lad, there's a high level of anticipation tied into holding the album (or ten boxes of the album) in my hands.
New Outrageous Cherry album sounds like Bernadette by the Four Tops for exactly six seconds, then briefly sounds like Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) by Suzi Quatro.
Oh, and if you like tweakers (you know you do!), check out this out. I'm still not exactly clear on what Insound is offering here, but watching Devendra and J.D. is always entertaining.
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