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...There’s this whole adage that any press is good press,” bassist Carrie Smith says before the Von Bondies’ Monday night concert at the Middle East. “But it’s kind of hard to look at it that way when something that horrible happens to somebody I really care about, because I do care about Jason. He’s one of my best friends. And it kind of sucks that people ask about it all the time and are gossipy about it. But I know it gets...
...made a business of rehabilitating and refurbishing the kitschiest moments in pop music. After a particularly humorless and unnecessary opening band, Raymond, (“The worst crowd ever!” griped Raymond’s bassist), and after fixing some initial sound difficulties that buried frontman Damien Kulash Jr.’s voice in the mix, OK Go delivered an hour of catchy pop songs that were undeniably and infectiously fun. Kulash channeled the campy spirits of Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury and, in a glorious cover of “Hold the Line...
...their sphere like Interpol command. Several times they went into feedback overdrive, not seeming to realize how much the jarring noise detracted from the underlying musical textures. Fletcher’s dry, overwrought vocals provided more annoyance than thoughtful tenor. Nonetheless, thrashing energy from drummer Dave Hamelin and bassist Oliver Crowe, combined with Fletcher’s art-boy charm (moments of social awkwardness aside) redeemed the performance, at least partially...
...aren't going to go crazy with advertising and promotion," he says--and agree that she could limit her number of publicity obligations. Then Jones, who lives on Manhattan's West Side, insulated herself with the near constant presence of her band, which includes her boyfriend of four years, bassist Lee Alexander. "I really wanted to write more songs for this record"--she wrote just two on the first--"and I wanted to write songs with them," says Jones. "Lee and I write very well together, but I write well with everybody else [in the band] too. We're comfortable...
...Records, then hit the recording studio. Although the New York City, postpunk influences are obvious, the band tends to cite lesser-known Scottish bands of the late '70s, like the Fire Engines and Orange Juice. But their sound is their own, with a driving beat supplied by Thompson and bassist Bob Hardy. Kapranos' tense, observational lyrics - "Although my lover lives in a place that I can't live/ I find I like a life this lonely/ It rips and pierces me, I love the rip of nerves/ The rip that wakes me" - are augmented by occasional lines in German...