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Friday, April 17, 2009

Tonight Also Tonight in Music: See Me River, TacocaT, Wallpaper

Posted by on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:24 PM

Yet another quality lineup at the Wildrose tonight. Dark folk-rockers See Me River, punk party-rockers TacocaT, and Wallpaper, who's sound Jeff Kirby described rather accurately last October:

Remember the '90s? Good times, for sure. I'm not talking about the grunge '90s, though. I'm talking about the unaggressive nerd-rock '90s, the Pavement '90s. I'll tell you who remembers those formative years for "alternative" music: Wallpaper. Everything about their catchy, jangly pop rock suggests they should be playing in a garage on The Adventures of Pete & Pete. They've got everything you need to bring you back a decade and a half: clean guitars, bowl haircuts, that "we don't care about anything" attitude. Even though a lot of the time it sounds like they're trying to be the Kinks, it's attempted with such Gen X disillusionment that you could never really call them a '60s revival band. Fittingly, Wallpaper's new album, On the Chewing Gum Ground, will be released next month by K Records.

The show is part of the KEXP Hood to Hood Challenge.

 

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If my brain wasn't so fried by the Pop Con I wouldn't be relaxing at home tonight for another round tomorrow. Which totally sucks, as I cannot wait to see Wallpaper live -- after playing their album incessantly since getting it last year.
Posted by Estey on April 17, 2009 at 9:33 PM

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