event Sugar Stems
Also Playing: Slow Walker and The Delphines
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Fri Dec 21
10 pm
Sugar Stems, Slow Walker, and The Delphines at Cactus Club
Bands everywhere are partying like it’s 1963 in 2010, digging out old girl-group harmonies and Brill Building melodies and sprucing them up with crunchy guitars. Sugar Stems aren’t exactly revolutionaries in this regard, but the Milwaukee band’s debut, Sweet Sounds Of The Sugar Stems, is still a sparkling example of how this template can spin infectious power-pop gems that marry the sexy purr of Ronnie Spector with the giddy energy of The Go-Gos. Sweet Sounds is built around the interplay of ex-Flips singer-guitarist Betsy Borst and Drew Fredrichsen, who retains the gum-chomping, sleeve-rolling cool he mastered as guitarist for Sheboygan’s Jetty Boys. Every song is packed with big, open chords and even bigger vocal harmonies supplied by Borst and Fredrichsen, particularly on the soaring “I Don’t Wanna Be Around You.”
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Bands everywhere are partying like it’s 1963 in 2010, digging out old girl-group harmonies and Brill Building melodies and sprucing them up with crunchy guitars. Sugar Stems aren’t exactly revolutionaries in this regard, but the Milwaukee band’s debut, Sweet Sounds Of The Sugar Stems, is still a sparkling example of how this template can spin infectious power-pop gems that marry the sexy purr of Ronnie Spector with the giddy energy of The Go-Gos. Sweet Sounds is built around the interplay of ex-Flips singer-guitarist Betsy Borst and Drew Fredrichsen, who retains the gum-chomping, sleeve-rolling cool he mastered as guitarist for Sheboygan’s Jetty Boys. Every song is packed with big, open chords and even bigger vocal harmonies supplied by Borst and Fredrichsen, particularly on the soaring “I Don’t Wanna Be Around You.”
Updated 12/11/2012
