event Counting Crows
Also Playing: Michael Franti & Spearhead and Augustana
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Mon Aug 3
7 pm
Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Augustana at Austin Music Hall
One of the most rakishly earnest bands ever, Counting Crows hit big in 1993 with the proto-emo roots-pop chart-stormer August And Everything After. Singer Adam Duritz got a lot of guff for his eye-twitching swoon, but Counting Crows have stayed around longer than first seemed possible. The group re-emerged in 2008 with the downbeat double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, accompanied by a press blitz where Duritz downplayed his former freewheeling, Friends-cast-member-nailing, stud-muffin ways. (He even admitted that he wears a wig! Shocker!) Michael Franti opens with the accessible blend of rock, reggae, hip-hop, soul, jam, and politics that makes up his current group Spearhead, as heard on last year’s engaging All Rebel Rockers.
Austin Music Hall 208 Nueces St, Austin, TX
One of the most rakishly earnest bands ever, Counting Crows hit big in 1993 with the proto-emo roots-pop chart-stormer August And Everything After. Singer Adam Duritz got a lot of guff for his eye-twitching swoon, but Counting Crows have stayed around longer than first seemed possible. The group re-emerged in 2008 with the downbeat double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, accompanied by a press blitz where Duritz downplayed his former freewheeling, Friends-cast-member-nailing, stud-muffin ways. (He even admitted that he wears a wig! Shocker!) Michael Franti opens with the accessible blend of rock, reggae, hip-hop, soul, jam, and politics that makes up his current group Spearhead, as heard on last year’s engaging All Rebel Rockers.
Updated 07/22/2009
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