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Silversun Pickups
Also Playing: Against Me!
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Mon Jul 26
7:30 pm
Silversun Pickups and Against Me! at Fillmore Auditorium
Even though their 2006 breakthrough, Carnavas, seemingly came out of nowhere, Silversun Pickups had been playing for six years before gaining a toehold in the mainstream—a position they look to bolster with their latest, last year’s Swoon. Like its predecessor, Swoon revels in the atmospherics of ’90s alternarock, but also shows the band evolving past the rote Smashing Pumpkins comparisons that greeted it initially. Out behind an excellent new album is Florida punk outfit Against Me!, who build on the slickness of 2007’s breakthrough, New Wave, with another suitably slick album, White Crosses. Like its predecessor, it’s produced by Butch Vig and full of hooky anthems, including a song called “Because Of The Shame” that would fit right in on a Hold Steady record.
Fillmore Auditorium 1510 Clarkson St, Denver/Boulder, CO
Even though their 2006 breakthrough, Carnavas, seemingly came out of nowhere, Silversun Pickups had been playing for six years before gaining a toehold in the mainstream—a position they look to bolster with their latest, last year’s Swoon. Like its predecessor, Swoon revels in the atmospherics of ’90s alternarock, but also shows the band evolving past the rote Smashing Pumpkins comparisons that greeted it initially. Out behind an excellent new album is Florida punk outfit Against Me!, who build on the slickness of 2007’s breakthrough, New Wave, with another suitably slick album, White Crosses. Like its predecessor, it’s produced by Butch Vig and full of hooky anthems, including a song called “Because Of The Shame” that would fit right in on a Hold Steady record.
Updated 07/26/2010
