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Doors 5:30pm / Show 6:30pm
$30 adv / $35 day ofThe National
- http://www.myspace.com/thenational
- http://www.americanmary.com/
- The National is a band of New Yorkers transplanted from Cincinnati: Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf. All individually accomplished musicians, the band’s members came together in 1999 and have since released four albums and toured the globe many times. Their 2005 release on the Beggars Banquet label, Alligator, became one of the most widely discussed and critically acclaimed independent albums of that year. It was hailed “album of the year” by the Los Angeles Times and called a “masterpiece” by Uncut magazine. Their latest release, Boxer, was named “#1 best album of the year” by Paste magazine. Their music merges rock, pop, and classical orchestral sounds with lyrics that discuss the underlying problems of quotidian American life -- money concerns and office politics are juxtaposed with the pains of love and war, providing a subliminal social commentary.
Yeasayer
- http://www.myspace.com/yeasayer
- http://www.yeasayer.net/
- The music of Brooklyn's Yeasayer is an eclectic, genre-bending journey into pop, druggy rock, Middle Eastern and African musics, folk, and dub. Vocalist/keyboardist Chris Keating and vocalist/guitarist Anand Wilder were both raised in Baltimore, where they honed their vocal skills in a barbershop quartet and initiated a musical partnership before leaving town to attend different colleges. Years later, the two relocated to New York and began shaping the project that would soon become Yeasayer. Wilder's cousin, Ira Wolf Tuton, joined as the group's bassist, and drummer Luke Fasano solidified the lineup in May 2006. The band set to work on recording their debut album, All Hour Cymbals, which was unveiled in October 2007.
--by Kenyon Hopkin
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