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...Orpheum Theater...
...valid compliment––an album is only a single way to get at a band’s sound, and live performances are a completely different experience. This is why it may be worth it to cough up the dough to catch Interpol at the Orpheum next week, as they’re one of the few bands in the post-Strokes wave that have made a name for especially killer live performances. Say what you will about 2004’s Antics, but their debut album, Turn On The Bright Lights, was a almost undisputed...
Cake’s offhand cultural awareness and deadpan irony have once again become a theme on Cake’s new album, Pressure Chief, the fifth of their career. In concert at the Orpheum October 7th, McCrea debuted “No Phone,” the second track off the new disc, to an audience filled with adoration for his trademark mordant social rants. “No Phone,” along with various other tracks off the new album, denounce technology and urban culture with a blander-than-usual strain of Cake’s signature...
...hard to understand why Wilson attracted a diverse crowd to the Orpheum. The concert did its best to bill itself as history in the making. Commemorative Smile programs were $20; circular Smile posters, at least $30; Smile shirts, hats, and sweaters as much as $70. The Smile logo was omnipresent, even appearing on a screen behind the band—as if the audience needed reminding of what was being played...
Wilson is frail in other ways that the album was able to conceal completely. At the Orpheum he was stage furniture, installed on his stool at the beginning and rarely standing up. When he did move about, he staggered. He played his keyboard mostly at will; often he waved his hands in the air, keeping no better time than the more enthusiastic members of his audience. The backing band, which at times boasted a string section of five and a brass section of three, had a professional conductor...