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...pace was moved up a gear again for the rest of the evening with a few brief ballads in between to cool the audience down. The talent of the fiddlers combined with an accordion, a guitar and a bouzouki managed to achieve an almost inhuman speed in most of their jigs, which made this a dynamic performance...
...spastic “KC Accidental” lent some power to the beginning of their set, with its start/stop guitar and manic drum breaks reminding the crowd why they had waited for several hours in sauna-like conditions to hear Broken Social Scene. The band proved that they had truly arrived with “Stars and Sons,” a plodding song accentuated by periodic bouts of clapping that got a room of hipper-than-thou indie types involved in some fashion of audience participation, if not actual dancing...
...more effective was the authentically anthemic “Almost Crimes,” which had Haines and pseudo-frontman Kevin Drew singing together in waves of mounting energy, leading the audience to rewarding sections of frantic improvisation. This song, with its impromptu guitar solos and impassioned finale, truly stole the show and the audience. “Cause=Time” was another highlight—a steadily chugging offbeat propelled the more restrained, but just as powerful number, its potential voltage crackling under a metronomic progression...
HepTunes presents this annual solo performance by Leo Kottke, singer and acoustic guitar player who has released over twenty albums and has toured all over the world. Tickets $27-29. 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...their new release, an album striking mostly for its choice of Athenian forebears—abandoning the region’s mid-90s psychedelic boom, here the Elves seem to be doing their best R.E.M. The album has a warm, folksy sound, immersed in twanging banjo and shuffling guitar. The consequence of this, from a band used to more complex arrangements, is that Beggar Boys ultimately suffers from boredom, especially around the middle of the album where simplistic roots-rock anthems like “Evil Eye” are so unengaging that it’s hard to believe...