event Breaking Benjamin
Also Playing: Sick Puppies and Janus
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Mon Dec 14
7:30 pm
http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/32905 Breaking Benjamin, Sick Puppies, and Janus at House Of Blues
Australia-formed band Sick Puppies sounds ridiculously at ease in its adopted American home, or at least amid the modern-rock and emo hordes. It’s an abjectly savvy hybrid, measuring in bits of what passes for rebelliousness, metal, and cathartic balladry on washed-out rock radio. That makes it perfect for Nickelback and Creed fans, but also for Dashboard Confessional fans, and maybe even Smashing Pumpkins fans who don’t know what they had back in the ’90s. The band even has the viral-novelty factor locked in, thanks to a much-viewed YouTube video for “All The Same.” The band is looking to build on the modest success of 2007’s Dressed Up As Life with the new Tripolar.
House Of Blues 329 N Dearborn St., Chicago, IL
Australia-formed band Sick Puppies sounds ridiculously at ease in its adopted American home, or at least amid the modern-rock and emo hordes. It’s an abjectly savvy hybrid, measuring in bits of what passes for rebelliousness, metal, and cathartic balladry on washed-out rock radio. That makes it perfect for Nickelback and Creed fans, but also for Dashboard Confessional fans, and maybe even Smashing Pumpkins fans who don’t know what they had back in the ’90s. The band even has the viral-novelty factor locked in, thanks to a much-viewed YouTube video for “All The Same.” The band is looking to build on the modest success of 2007’s Dressed Up As Life with the new Tripolar.
Updated 01/06/2010
