Sunday, July 15, 2007
2nd hand deal
Our next stop was Wintermitts CD release at Frank's on Franklin. The band describes themselves as "ADD" and "genre bending," and I wouldn't disagree. With that in mind, my fondness for them varied from song to song. The only other time I saw them, they were playing as a 3-piece, but last night they were a five strong version of the Wintermitts, and that was definitely a good thing.
After the Wintermitts finished, I made it to the Sweatshop in time to catch most of the Clips set. I'm way more into their upbeat material than the down tempo stuff, and luckily for me, that's mostly what they stuck to. If for nothing else, they get loads of admiration for being able to get most of the crowd to dance when it felt like it was too hot to move at all. Their last song, especially, was pretty intense.
Bend Sinister finished off the evening (well, my evening - the party kept going after they played). As I've said before, they're just stylistically not my thing, but if you're into prog (minus the pretension), there's nobody doing it better in this city. They also got a new drummer. No offense to the old guy, but this new dude is an upgrade, which makes them even tighter than they were before.
now playing: Autolux - Sugarless
2nd hand deal
Yesterday, I'd half-assed planned to just chill out at Hoko's for a bit and take in Hefe and the Neins Circa. The "chilling out at Hoko's for a bit" part happened, but half way through Hefe it was decided that instead of trying to stick around at one show on such a busy night, we would hit up a bunch of them. I didn't catch any of the Neins Circa, and no offense to Hefe, but the undisputed highlight of Hoko's while I was there was the woman who did "Moondance" for the karaoke contest portion of the evening. It was pretty amazing.
Our next stop was Wintermitts CD release at Frank's on Franklin. The band describes themselves as "ADD" and "genre bending," and I wouldn't disagree. With that in mind, my fondness for them varied from song to song. The only other time I saw them, they were playing as a 3-piece, but last night they were a five strong version of the Wintermitts, and that was definitely a good thing.
After the Wintermitts finished, I made it to the Sweatshop in time to catch most of the Clips set. I'm way more into their upbeat material than the down tempo stuff, and luckily for me, that's mostly what they stuck to. If for nothing else, they get loads of admiration for being able to get most of the crowd to dance when it felt like it was too hot to move at all. Their last song, especially, was pretty intense.
Bend Sinister finished off the evening (well, my evening - the party kept going after they played). As I've said before, they're just stylistically not my thing, but if you're into prog (minus the pretension), there's nobody doing it better in this city. They also got a new drummer. No offense to the old guy, but this new dude is an upgrade, which makes them even tighter than they were before.
now playing: Autolux - Sugarless
Labels: bend sinister, show recaps, the clips, wintermitts
