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You’ve probably never heard of them, and neither has America. They’ve been mentioned in passing in the same breath as the Strokes and the Libertines—occasionally. Pillars of the rock renaissance—kind of. An exciting new band??if you’re into that scene—raising hairs and eyebrows and taking the country by storm—if they can get away with...
Here the grave-robbing limits itself to a single era, the early 80s and the peak of new wave. But without Beck’s consistent songwriting behind Ima Robot, the results are far more mixed. The band??s revival of choice is not as fresh as it might have been four or five years ago. By now, The Rapture and their fellow hipsters have pilfered the 80s in much more innovative ways, with considerably more sincerity. Hysterical, high-pitched vocals, stinging guitar lines and echoing Duran Duran synths are old hats in late...
Named “Outstanding Pop/Rock Band?? at the 2003 Boston Music Awards, Moonraker, an electronic outfit from Boston, plays in support of their self-titled debut. They have toured with the likes of Lake Trout, Elefant, Joan Osbourne, The Slip, DJ Spooky, and the Broken Social Scene, and they return to the band??s birthplace with some reworked material and a batch of new songs. Annie Clark and Iluminada also perform. 9:30 p.m. $10; 18+. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street...
It’s in these moments of improvisation that the band??s potential for creativity emerges. Guitarist Neal McKeeby’s sparer moments—utilizing echoes and often random syncopation—add mystery to otherwise formulaic songs, and his penchant for experimentation shines on the jazzier “Clashing” and in “Goose Geese.” In the latter, his strumming actually resembles electric cello...
...suburbs of New York, where “you eventually meet people who have hip older brothers who listen to punk or prog rock. Anything out of the way or weird just struck my imagination…I would get really into somebody and I would see who that band??s influences were, and sort of work backwards from there...