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Husband and wife duo Mates of State perform their lovers’ rock with synthesizers and drums at the Middle East. Boston bands Victory at Sea—celebrating the release of their new album—and Helms open. Shenzou 5 and the Firebird Band provide further support. 18+. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East...
Passionately political Washington, D.C. band Q and Not U hit up Cambridge, playing stylistically varied and utterly danceable rock. Even more overtly political Joan of Arc—of Chicago—open, as do unknowns La Mi Vida Violenta. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East...
...agreed on hatred of D12’s “My Band,” in which Eminem, to the accompaniment of his band, raps well about how he gets all of the attention, and the band raps poorly about how they get no attention. The worst comes when the band dons gleaming white suits for a Boyz II Men-like harmonizing bit, with the fat D12 member upfront, breast coverage removed from his outfit. This video countered our theory that its Roman popularity might just come out of not understanding the lyrics, but despite our hatred...
Kiss & Tell kicks off with the barnstorming “Who Do You Dance For,” and immediately it is clear that the band is setting their charts on New Wave and power-pop glory, snarling with a mid-distortion guitar riff and Maria Andersson’s sweet-but-tough vocals. Two minutes later, as the song fades out to overlapping cries “Every night, every night! Ev-er-y night!” their influences are clear: These Swedes are doing their best Go-Go’s, without looking back for a second...
...Nerves,” the album’s hardest track, betrays any claim that the album is short on flat-out rock, though the vocals still have moments breaking into heavenly high squeal, and it’s a compromise deftly handled by the band. On “Stay / Stay Away” Andersson’s voice reaches levels of emotion seen nowhere else on the album. In a second she turns from desperately declaring “it breaks my heart when you tell me to go” to rocking out in frustration with...