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...interesting things with guitars,” says Stumpf. “We don’t really give a shit about rock music. I never listen to it. I hate most of it. Standard guitar rock is probably my least favorite thing in the world. We write guitar-based songs...but that doesn’t mean that we’re a guitar rock band...
Except they are—and the most standard of their kind, at that. Everything they hate about guitar rock, its stagnation, reliance on overused cliches and reluctance to invent, is all prevalent in their music. If Stumpf really does like R. Kelly and Jay-Z and Motown as much as he claims, then this much should be obvious...
...mellow Welsh band Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, with music almost as foreign-sounding as its name as its name, joins the North Carolina guitar band Kingsbury Manx. $10; 18+. Middle East (Downstairs), 480 Mass...
...singing like Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix or Billie Holiday when it suits his fancy. The masterpiece of his genre-bending adventure is “Hey Ya!” The hook is sticky sweet, with André crooning over an immaculate loop—hand claps, nylon guitar strings and xylophone synths...
...mixed. The band’s revival of choice is not as fresh as it might have been four or five years ago. By now, The Rapture and their fellow hipsters have pilfered the 80s in much more innovative ways, with considerably more sincerity. Hysterical, high-pitched vocals, stinging guitar lines and echoing Duran Duran synths are old hats in late...