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Girls
Also Playing: Dum Dum Girls
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Wed Apr 14
8:30 pm
Girls and Dum Dum Girls at Fox Theatre
Girls is a San Francisco band with a compelling back-story—singer Christopher Owens grew up in the Children Of God, a scary cult that’s worth staying as far away from as possible—and a debut album that’s inspired as much by rock obsessives like Elvis Costello as it is by early rock itself: Buddy Holly, to be sure, but also early albums from acts like The Beach Boys and The Beatles. Album is the Girls album’s name, and like the title, there’s a sense of transparency that bleeds through the songs. Anchoring the proceedings is Owens’ voice, a sonorous thing that’s as vulnerable as it is assertive. The Dum Dum Girls' new I Will Be runs the gamut of leather-clad rock 'n' roll street toughs, sneering its way through girl-group melodramatics, self-destructive '70s punk, and the grinding, psychedelic noise of the late-'80s college-rock boom.
Fox Theatre 1135 13th St, Denver/Boulder, CO
Girls is a San Francisco band with a compelling back-story—singer Christopher Owens grew up in the Children Of God, a scary cult that’s worth staying as far away from as possible—and a debut album that’s inspired as much by rock obsessives like Elvis Costello as it is by early rock itself: Buddy Holly, to be sure, but also early albums from acts like The Beach Boys and The Beatles. Album is the Girls album’s name, and like the title, there’s a sense of transparency that bleeds through the songs. Anchoring the proceedings is Owens’ voice, a sonorous thing that’s as vulnerable as it is assertive. The Dum Dum Girls' new I Will Be runs the gamut of leather-clad rock 'n' roll street toughs, sneering its way through girl-group melodramatics, self-destructive '70s punk, and the grinding, psychedelic noise of the late-'80s college-rock boom.
Updated 09/15/2011
