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...self-taught guitar virtuoso, the Steve Kimrock band is known for their creative improvisation. Their music fuses jazz and rock in the jam band tradition of Phish and The Grateful Dead. Tickets $25. +18. 10 p.m. The Middle East Downstairs...
Still, either of their two records offer only a taste of the power the Von Bondies generate playing live. They began their Monday night set with a wobbly start—Bolen’s guitar strap fell off less than a minute into the angry, rumbling opener, first album title track “Lack of Communication.” Then, a line into the first verse, Stollsteimer walked offstage, leaving the crowd and fellow band members utterly confused...
...audience laughed at his allusion. The rest of the show ran smoothly, if that word can even be used to describe the Bondies’ arsenal of fiery rock ’n roll tunes: Stollsteimer’s Otis Redding-influenced howl bellowing over surging currents of guitar, bass and drums...
...career has followed an eccentric path. A junior swimming champion, Gelmetti initially studied composition and classical guitar before finding a mentor in the somewhat mystical figure of Sergiu Celibidache, the Romanian-born conductor who famously declared that recorded music was like kissing a dead woman. As principal conductor at the Stuttgart Radio Symphony and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Gelmetti later found success - but not fame. Instead, when the SSO's then artistic administrator began telling international arts managers about Gelmetti's appointment in 2002, "many of them had never heard of him," Calnin recalls. "I think it's because...
Songs on Bows are cinematic—thick, sweeping layers of piano, guitar and organ produce compelling vignettes that dwarf the simplicity of lyrics. Hamilton Leithauser’s vocals glide and soar behind a scratchy veil, adding poignancy to the mundane actions and thoughts he sings about. On break-up lament “The North Pole,” he sounds on the verge of shattering as he howls, “Everybody knows / That’s the way it goes.” But the childlike “New Year’s Eve?...