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Titus Andronicus
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Fri Nov 23
7 pm
Titus Andronicus, Ceremony, and Jaill at Turner Hall Ballroom
Every rock band from New Jersey is inevitably compared to you-know-who, but Titus Andronicus is Boss-like in at least one respect: It doesn’t shy away from big concepts or big emotions. Frontman Patrick Stickles kicks off his band’s third full-length, Local Business, by singing, “I think by now we’ve established everything is inherently worthless / and there’s nothing in the universe with any kind of objective purpose.” Indeed, Local Business brings with it no such reprieve to the everyday doom and gloom explored in both 2010’s The Monitor and 2008’s The Airing Of Grievances. If anything, as that opening line suggests, the album is here to remind listeners that evils resulting from conformity, social constructs, eating disorders, and all manner of other things forced upon their modern consumerist society are regularly occurring scourges that must be taken on at all costs if they are to truly live.
Turner Hall Ballroom 1032 N 4th St, Milwaukee, WI
Every rock band from New Jersey is inevitably compared to you-know-who, but Titus Andronicus is Boss-like in at least one respect: It doesn’t shy away from big concepts or big emotions. Frontman Patrick Stickles kicks off his band’s third full-length, Local Business, by singing, “I think by now we’ve established everything is inherently worthless / and there’s nothing in the universe with any kind of objective purpose.” Indeed, Local Business brings with it no such reprieve to the everyday doom and gloom explored in both 2010’s The Monitor and 2008’s The Airing Of Grievances. If anything, as that opening line suggests, the album is here to remind listeners that evils resulting from conformity, social constructs, eating disorders, and all manner of other things forced upon their modern consumerist society are regularly occurring scourges that must be taken on at all costs if they are to truly live.
Updated 11/12/2012
