boston baked tunes
not that anybody was missing me, but sorry for the month of silence. i’d like to say that i was so pleased by national political events that i didn’t feel the need to rant, but the reality is that there just isn’t enough time to do everything. so here’s a post i started back around thanksgiving… and finished today. and a pledge to be a bit more up-to-date in 2007.
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it sure is nice to know that literate pop/rock can still draw a decent crowd on a tuesday night. and the tuesday before thanksgiving, even. the pernice brothers rolled through town and played a magnificent set of tunes for an appreciative—one might even say reverent—audience. drawing heavily from the most recent release and sampling the previous four full-length albums, joe pernice led his 5-piece band capably, if not particularly thrillingly. but rock and roll thrills take a backseat to songwriting skills in pernice’s world and, for him, it works wonderfully. Read the rest of this entry »
