So Tuesday night I opted to go to a show instead of write a paper. And boy oh boy am I glad I did. I think I’ll talk about the show in order of bands I liked the most, which conveniently is reverse order.
I’ve been listening to We Were Promised Jetpacks for about four months now since they were recomended to me by the awesome Stinkweeds guy (awesome record store, awesome guy). Their first album, These Four Walls is a damn-near-perfect example of good, solid, sing-along-able indie rock. I adore everything about it, and apparently my sentiment is shared by the crowd at The Rhythm Room. When Adam, the lead singer, started off It’s Thunder and Lightening he didn’t use (or need) his mic. The whole room was belting it out along with him. For me, the best part of show was how into it the band was. There were maybe 200 people in The Rhythm Room, but they worked that stage like it was a crowd of 2,000. Props guys, you were brilliant.
Next up on my list is Bear Hands, who also rocked my shit. Not quite as hard as Jetpacks, but for a band I’ve never even heard of, they got me up off my barstool. Their sound is pretty different from Jetpacks, leaning more towards a Queens of the Stone Age sound, which I definitely loved. I spent five of my ten precious dollars on their EP, so they must have rocked. (I’ve been listening to it on repeat all day today, FYI) I loved them, they were exactly my kind of indie music. Not like everyone-who-wants-to-be-Metric, new, fresh.
Color Store, well…they kinda sucked. I ran into my poetry professor there, and he said he came to see his friend play with them and I felt kind of bad, because M. and I mocked them and covered our ears the whole time. So I didn’t mention them to him. Aaaaaaawkward. They might have been passable if their vocals weren’t so quiet and the guitars so loud and clangy. Not for me. Sorry prof…
