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Counting Crows
Also Playing: We Are Augustines and Kasey Anderson and Field Report
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Wed Jul 25
7:30 pm
Counting Crows, We Are Augustines, Kasey Anderson, and Field Report at BMO Harris Pavilion (Summerfest)
One of the most rakishly earnest bands ever, Counting Crows hit big in 1993 with the proto-emo roots-pop chart-stormer August And Everything After. Singer Adam Duritz got a lot of guff for his eye-twitching swoon, but Counting Crows have stayed around longer than first seemed possible. The group re-emerged in 2008 with the downbeat double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, accompanied by a press blitz where Duritz downplayed his former freewheeling, Friends-cast-member-nailing, stud-muffin ways. (He even admitted that he wears a wig! Shocker!) The band’s back now with Underwater Sunshine, an ill-advised covers record where Duritz jams and warbles over The Faces’ “Ooh La La,” and Big Star’s “The Ballad Of El Goodo,” among other musical victims.
BMO Harris Pavilion (Summerfest) 200 N. Harbor Dr., Milwaukee, WI
One of the most rakishly earnest bands ever, Counting Crows hit big in 1993 with the proto-emo roots-pop chart-stormer August And Everything After. Singer Adam Duritz got a lot of guff for his eye-twitching swoon, but Counting Crows have stayed around longer than first seemed possible. The group re-emerged in 2008 with the downbeat double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, accompanied by a press blitz where Duritz downplayed his former freewheeling, Friends-cast-member-nailing, stud-muffin ways. (He even admitted that he wears a wig! Shocker!) The band’s back now with Underwater Sunshine, an ill-advised covers record where Duritz jams and warbles over The Faces’ “Ooh La La,” and Big Star’s “The Ballad Of El Goodo,” among other musical victims.
Updated 07/10/2012
