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Most of what passes for pop swing these days is content simply to give off heat. Retro acts like the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies create swing that owes more to rock than jazz; it's propelled by attitude, sometimes fueled by electric guitars and focused more on excitement than enlightenment. Much of today's pop swing is also burdened by irony--many acts seem to be sending the genre up even as they get down...
Slick your hair back and get one more use outof that zoot suit and pair of saddle shoes. Beforeswing falls out of favor and the next dance crazebecomes all the rage, catch the Brian SetzerOrchestra jump, jive and wail away. Whenformer Stray Cat Setzer jams with his 17-pieceband, the joint will be jumping. Make Vince Vaughnproud. 9 p.m., The Palladium, 261 Main St.,Worchester, 423-NEXT. Tickets...
...Brad Setzer...
...movie looks remarkable contemporary throughout, and it is somewhat eerie to remember that the soundtrack comes from Los Lobos, voted Band of the Year by the once-progressive Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-'80s. When the Stray Cats' Brian Setzer does his Eddie Chocrane impersonation, and Marshall Crenshaw does his Buddy Holly stand-in bit, our generation's obseesion with the Eisenhower era is cast into vivid relief...
...MILTON SETZER...