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...Verve Pipe, a modern rock band best known for its hit single “The Freshmen,” will headline Springfest on April 27 in the MAC Quad, according to the band??s management...
...band??s on-stage dynamic was unusual. Lead by singer/guitar player Ben Gibbard, the band included bassist Nick Harmer, drummer Nathan Good. And another guy, Christopher Walla, who held a guitar for most of the time, but rarely, if ever, played it. He had a microphone, but never sang backing vocals. Instead, he made bizarre, non sequitur comments in between songs, eliciting awkward laughs and puzzled smiles from audience and band members alike...
That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band??s melodrama only intensifies the band??s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...
...album, recorded in a Seattle house by the band??s guitarist, is simple, frills-free, and plenty of good clean fun—but it’s not for all music tastes. Its style is undeniably simplistic, and its lyrics (when decipherable) are hardly memorable. The chorus of “Wild Bikini,” an ode to a hot beach-babe, goes “Well she sure looks cute/ In her pink swim suit.” Beat Surf Fun may not be poetic, but it is a collection of lighthearted, and easy...
...band deliberately marketed as a pretty boy rock band (shaggy-haired blondes barely out of their teenage years), it is easy to dismiss the Calling as the industry’s next attempt to capitalize on the burgeoning teen-pop genre. Indeed, vocalist Alex Band??s earnest crooning about love and rejection is enough to make any girl swoon. The intense romance of Camino Palmero, the band??s debut release, is a courtship of raw emotions, broken hearts, and longing. Their audience can expect nothing but warm fuzzy instant gratification, all pleasure and no aftertaste...