New Pornographers @ The Warfield, SF 9/17/2007 I don’t like going to concerts alone, because I feel like a loser and everyone is staring at me and I have no friends. On the other hand, I don’t like going to shows with someone who doesn’t really like the band, because the whole time I’m thinking, [...]
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Lucky Soul
Lucky Soul are the best retro/twee, Spector-inspired, 60′s-style melody-masters I’ve found. And I think the secret to their appeal—in contrast to similar-sounding bands, like The Pipettes or Belle and Sebastian—is an unabashed sincerity. With similar groups, they sing the sweet and simple songs, with handclaps and La La La choruses, but you get the feeling [...]
Challengers
Looking at albums as a whole, artists walk a file line between a collection of distinct, disjointed tracks that lack a unifying aspect, or a compilation of tracks that are so unified it seems like a single 45-minute song (cf. Maroon 5′s Songs About Jane). To varying degrees, some artists are able to balance these [...]