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Here comes tonight’s shitlist showlist. There are some good bands, but tonight’s group is overwhelmingly unexciting. It’s left me uninspired enough to not post a list tomorrow, so I won’t. Instead, there will be time devoted to raging after having read this account of Fuck Yea Fest founders getting beat up by Hollywood Bowl’s security staff and being ignored by the LA police while I was watching a footage of an NYPD officer lifting up a woman and smashing her face down on the floor, followed by an image of her badly swollen face on television. I think I heard “pleaded not guilty”. Obama will have to repair the damage. Of every bad news. With his speeches. He headlines at the DNC. Go crazy.
ps. Pictured with “Yes We Can” sign is Adam from The Royal Chains, who’s not playing tonight, but you can see them at Mercury Lounge next on Sept 8th.
All bands and mp3 links after the jump.
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Frances: All the While
The Muslims: Nightlife
The Walkmen: Good for You’s Good for Me
Double Wonderful: That’s the Way
The Royal Chains: There’s No Love in Your Punches
Paper Route: Empty House
The Faint: The Geeks Were Right
The Black Hollies: Paisley Pattern Ground
Howlies: Sea Level
Shy Child: Astronaut
Bowery Ballroom: New York’s sextet Frances is my favorite amongst the bands playing tonight. The music is a dynamc blend of opposites stirred in to strike a compelling balance: pop against the unpop, wanderings against the hooky, and so on. With the right kind of energy, their set show should be delightful. They’re opening for The Walkmen and The Muslims, so it’s a pretty good line-up.
More bands after the jump.
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