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Tumbledown
Also Playing: The Kentucky Parlor Pickers
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Tue Feb 21
9 pm
Tumbledown and The Kentucky Parlor Pickers at Larimer Lounge
No longer just an alt-country lark for MxPx frontman Mike Herrera, Tumbledown has become the long-running pop-punker’s main focus over the past couple of years. On the band’s self-titled debut, Herrera sticks mostly to raucous drinking anthems dressed up in twang and outlaw swagger—although, with his distinctive nasally bark, it occasionally sounds like some Dead Milkmen-esque piss-take. His latest record, 2010’s Empty Bottle, adds an edge of social awareness to the mix—via the galloping border-town story-song “Arrested In El Paso Blues”—but it’s still largely populated by anxious souls whose weeklong benders are the only thing between them and their dreams.
Larimer Lounge 2721 Larimer St, Denver/Boulder, CO
No longer just an alt-country lark for MxPx frontman Mike Herrera, Tumbledown has become the long-running pop-punker’s main focus over the past couple of years. On the band’s self-titled debut, Herrera sticks mostly to raucous drinking anthems dressed up in twang and outlaw swagger—although, with his distinctive nasally bark, it occasionally sounds like some Dead Milkmen-esque piss-take. His latest record, 2010’s Empty Bottle, adds an edge of social awareness to the mix—via the galloping border-town story-song “Arrested In El Paso Blues”—but it’s still largely populated by anxious souls whose weeklong benders are the only thing between them and their dreams.
Updated 02/08/2012
