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lovecars
at CB's
Gallery
Saturday
11/7/98
7:00 pm
american
paint at
Rodeo Bar
Saturday
11/7/98
11:00pm |
LOVE-CARS @ CB'S GALLERY
SATURDAY 11/7, 7 PM
You may remember hearing an itchy little number called "Somerset" on this year's MobFest sampler, or you may remember hearing them on a college station near you (they were played on over 100), but make no mistake -- once you hear Love-cars, you will remember them.
"Love-cars has come up with the perfect pop weapon: they've mastered the art of emo-core styled lyricism and combined it with candy-coated, bubble-gum pop riffs that make the ears happy long after the song has faded. The end result is a guitar-driven pop dream that keeps going, and going...and going."
(Jam TV)
"Guitarist Matt Foust (ex-12 Rods) takes cues from the wide-open tones of Jimmy Eat World and the more focused fretwork of Superchunk or Sunny Day Real Estate, but the resultant blend is definitely greater - and smoother - than the sum of its parts... A year from now, when you're hearing them on the only radio stations that matter, you'll wonder how you lived without this band; don't live without them now."
(A&E)
"If the Twin Cities had a supergroup of the underground sort, it would be Love-cars... With eruptions of hiccuping melody and rhythm lines, they dish out the unexpected and unusual with a frantic punkish spirit but digestible and hummable, bubble-bursting choruses."
(Vickie Gilmer/Star Tribune)
"In critic-ville, October is a month of meditation. It's when we realize that we only have about a month before our editors expect us to remember which of the hundreds of albums released over the past year should make our self-important "best of" lists... two pop albums stand well ahead of the pack as the best indie works of the year. Simply, Matt Wilson's Burnt, White and Blue (Planetmaker) and Love-cars' Chump Lessons (No Alternative) are, 'the shit' (technically speaking)... As for Love-cars, find me a better drummer than Dave King in Twin Town and I'll buy you a pitcher. These guys can lay down melodies that reek of pop nirvana, plus singer James Diers can turn a phrase with the best of them."
(Pulse of the Twin Cities)
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AMERICAN PAINT @ RODEO BAR
SATURDAY 11/7, 11 PM
"American Paint is one of those rare bands that arrive, seemingly out of nowhere, with a sound so comfortable you'd think you'd been born listening to it, yet enough twists to knock you off guard each time you think, 'I've heard this before.'"
(No Depression)
"Never before have I been so completely hooked within the first three chords of a record."
(Pulse of the Twin Cities)
"People don't make 'em like this often enough. There's a whole Jayhawks/Wilco thang with a little Gin Blossoms energy... A great record with songs that have weight. Not an easy thing to pull off."
(Yeah Yeah Yeah)
"Alt-poppers American Paint's fine debut disc only hints at the places they are going."
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