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Also this issue: Billy the Kidder Time and Tide HearHere Miguel Zenón Quartet The 90 Day Men Erykah Badu Joe Strummer/Clash Tribute Benny Golson Quartet |
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January 30-February 5, 2003
musicpicks
Each of these wandering frontmen is dedicated to a different stylistic musical muse, but Love As Laughter's Sam Jayne, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and The Shins' James Mercer form a triumvirate of Sub Pop's most compelling songwriters. Jayne's band favors a crunchy, glammed-out, raved-up garage sound that hides his confessions within a rumbling roar. Born-and-bred southerner Sam Beam sports a distinctive twang that strolls along a Nashville lane with a quiet lethargy that embraces both its folk and country roots. For all their slumbering grace, Beam's lackadaisical (sometimes ambivalent) lovelorn ruminations are as lyrically pointed as O-Town is dull. Mercer's band received almost as much critical approbation as The Strokes or The Vines, though their sound is even more retro. Harking back to the psychedelic pop of The Beach Boys and Love, their richly melodic approach is rife with jangling guitars, warm echo-laden vocals and cosmic background atmospherics. Expect an interesting show, as alone and with each other backing, they reinterpret their songs without the bands that recorded them.
Mon., Feb. 3, 9 p.m., $8, with Rosie Thomas, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888.
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