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Despite their sudden disappearance from the landscape, their long-term importance has remained intact: the trademark sound of soaring, pedaled, yet restrained guitar and whining/majestic vocals over a solid foundation of simplistic drumming and basswork defined the style of the nth generation descendants of the Velvet Underground, and in turn helped to inspire the shoegaze and slowcore movements that were so fruitful in the early and mid ’90s. To this day they remain one of Boston’s most famous indie exports...
Though he’s clearly the driving force behind the group, Wareham is hardly a tyrant. This is two-guitar music, and both guitarists, Wareham and Sean Eden, were given plentiful opportunity to shine throughout the set. Eden even stepped to the microphone for “Broken Chair,” revealing himself as a more than able vocalist while giving Wareham a chance to rest his uniquely nasal voice...
Many bands tote racks full of effects pedals onto the stage, but rarely are they justified. On Friday, they most certainly were: Luna manipulate sound like magicians, using all the tricks in their bag to make a single guitar track multiply and shapeshift until it’s palpable, filling the room with warm red sound...
...their sales and recognition rise. Warren Haynes, the mastermind behind gritty blues-rock icons Gov’t Mule, is the latest of these musical renaissance men. Apart from his work in Mule, Haynes has cemented his legend with a burgeoning solo career and the contribution of his inimitable guitar style to tours with The Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends and The Allman Brothers Band...
...that Haynes’ songwriting capacities are brought into question; overall, the songs on this album impress less than those on The Deepest End. There are still ferocious moments on many of the tracks where Haynes’ gruff voice can make your hair stand up or where his guitar playing is especially emotive, but many of the songs are difficult to tell apart and thus the album feels slightly ambiguous. Chord changes are relatively predictable as are many of the guitar riffs but the Mule plays this music with such verve and emotion that it’s impossible...