Pioneering emo-rockers Jimmy Eat World took to the Mann Center’s Skyline Stage on Friday with twice the energy of a band half their age. Continue reading…
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Live Review: Maserati, November 5, 2012 at Kung Fu Necktie (Philadelphia)
Stream: Maserati – “Earth Like”
Imagine yourself as a space pilot, having escaped from your robotic overlord jailers after being imprisoned for thought crimes. Continue reading…
Live Review: Minus the Bear at the Electric Factory, December 3, 2010
MP3: Minus the Bear – “My Time”
Going in, I had mixed feelings about seeing Minus The Bear perform at Philadelphia’s Electric Factory — one of the city’s largest venues — on Friday. Continue reading…
Live Review: The Sea and Cake at Theater of the Living Arts, September 14, 2010
The Sea and Cake are invincible. I came to this conclusion after their performance at Philadelphia’s Theater of Living Arts, where they opened for Broken Social Scene. Continue reading
Live Review: Cap’n Jazz at the Starlight Ballroom, July 24, 2010
In the liner notes of Cap’n Jazz’s 1998 anthology Analphabetapolothology, singer Tim Kinsella opined: “reissues…undermine our pretenses by making what was once special and precious in its rarity, somehow a little less in its convenient availability.†To Kinsella, the reissue served as a means of “getting over and past it†in terms of his own personal involvement with the highly influential Chicago band.
Now, twelve years later (and fifteen since their disbandment), one wonders what inspired Kinsella to get past getting past it; Cap’n Jazz have reunited for a handful of shows on both coasts. Supported on the eastern shows by their hometown contemporaries Gauge — who called it quits in 1994 and reformed earlier this year — both bands are giving audiences (many of whom were in elementary school during their existence) a taste of what made the music of the Midwest so important in the early 90’s. Continue reading…