Word: orpheum
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...names coming to Boston (or at least New England) in the next few months, and I'll try to tell you in advance about them. Third Eye Blind tickets, for instance, go on sale today at 11a.m. And it may be Oasis headlining the concert at the Orpheum in April, but the band to look out for is their opening act Travis, an amazing indie-rock group that does hilarious covers on stage. And finally, no matter how you parse it, the title of the new Oasis album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is ungrammatical. "Shoulder?" Not unless someone...
...from hip-hop rap to melancholy grunge ballads, in a changing music world. These rocking New Yorkers, on tour since the release of Electric Honey, are in Boston for the Yahoo! Out Loud Tour, a nationwide tour with Smash Mouth coupled with local bands, like Captain Audio, at the Orpheum on Feb 19. Kate Schellenbach, one of the major female drummers of the decade (and former Beastie Boy drummer), took the time to answer a few questions about the band, touring, aging and the gentrification of New York City...
What is Guster? Well, combine ping-pong balls, party hats, two guitars, bongos, tuxedos, an improvised rocket ship and the Y2K bug... you just might come close. On Halloween Eve, when the demons were prowling the streets of Boston, a crowd gathered with Guster in the sold-out Orpheum Theater to ring in... the New Year? Let's start at the beginning...
Seth: "The Orpheum contained all of the usual signs of the apocalypse: a costumed, junk-tossing and young crowd stranger than one would find at the Rocky Horror Picture Show; a countdown to the end of the millennium-cum-doomsday-inspired Y2K electrical blackout; and the three members of Guster--bedecked in black tie---descending to the stage in special chairs while Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" whipped the crowd into a frenzy...
...Jimmy: "Playing the acoustic Mona Lisa in the large sold-out Orpheum, Miller and Adam Gardner sang softly, almost imperceptible to the ear from our seats in the back right. Yet, when previously balloons were loudly struck and yells exchanged, the hall turned to silence, pure silence. When recognition dawned on the song, a background chorus more perfect than even some professional backup vocals rose from the crowd in harmony to the band. For that stark moment, I wished that I had broken into this cult, and sang along for one clear voice along with everyone else...