event Ben Kweller
Also Playing: Sleeper Agent and The Dig
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Tue Mar 27
8 pm
Ben Kweller, Sleeper Agent, and The Dig at High Noon Saloon
By 1997, Ben Kweller’s fabled band Radish was doomed to failure by overzealous music critics who saddled the 10th-grade frontman with comparisons to Kurt Cobain. Since then, Kweller has been able to beat the rap and show off his versatile songwriting with a series of poppy, folky records grounded in unfussy piano and tambourine jangle. 2009’s Changing Horses marked Kweller’s first full-on dalliance with country, an inevitability his Texas twang always hinted at. Kweller recently self-released his fifth album, Go Fly A Kite, through his label The Noise Company; its title is presumably based on the affable frontman’s parting words with ATO.
High Noon Saloon 701 E. Washington Ave., Madison, WI
By 1997, Ben Kweller’s fabled band Radish was doomed to failure by overzealous music critics who saddled the 10th-grade frontman with comparisons to Kurt Cobain. Since then, Kweller has been able to beat the rap and show off his versatile songwriting with a series of poppy, folky records grounded in unfussy piano and tambourine jangle. 2009’s Changing Horses marked Kweller’s first full-on dalliance with country, an inevitability his Texas twang always hinted at. Kweller recently self-released his fifth album, Go Fly A Kite, through his label The Noise Company; its title is presumably based on the affable frontman’s parting words with ATO.
Updated 04/19/2012
