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Cellar Door’s not-quite-emo won’t be a problem for everyone—Vanderslice is the kind of guy who makes every mopey English concentrator’s day by adapting Shelley for his lyrics, rediscovering British Romantics as proto-Obersts. But as perfectly-crafted as each individual song is, listening to the full album makes you want to remind Vanderslice not to forget to be cool, in that distant, disaffected sense of the word. Sometimes caring too much is a bad thing...
Blanks.—last year’s emo-punk freshman phenoms—just opened for the North Mississippi All Stars at Loker Lecture Hall last Saturday. Having established a strong following, the band is retreating from the spotlight this term to rehearse and write new material...
...British guitar bands which most Americans never hear. Doves had their moment here (I even saw The Strokes open for them a couple of years ago), and Travis are known by connoisseurs of the mopey acoustic, but they are the elite in a genre as ubiquitous in Britain as emo was in the US. Americans don’t produce enough earnest strummings locally, so they import it from across the pond to meet the limited demand. What America does produce in abundance doesn’t often make for good export, though. Much less than gangsta rap, the American...
Boston indie band the Damn Personals headline. Attend for catchy, hummable tunes of the emo persuasion. Runner and the Thermodynamics, the Space Shots and American Car also perform. 9 p.m. $10; 18+. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street...
Thus, while you can marvel at the band’s artistic credibility and pin them with labels like emo or post-punk, you’d better be bobbing your head while you’re doing...