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White Problems
Also Playing: Worrier and Sleepcomesdown
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Billy Hyer
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Billy Hyer
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Billy Hyer
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Sat Dec 19
10 pm
White Problems, Worrier, and Sleepcomesdown at Cactus Club
Sprung from the ashes of the Jesus Lizard-inspired Freight and the ’90s-noise-with-’70s-riffs Year Of The Scavenger, Milwaukee’s White Problems takes its name literally—all of its songs are named after first-world bummers that really aren’t that much of a drag. (A standout is “Dude, Where’s My Flix?” about late-arriving Netflix DVDs.) Keeping that conceit in the forefront must do wonders for the band’s live shows, which are usually a series of carefree, shambolic blasts of overdriven bass and driving percussion, topped off by Brian Rogers’ writhing howls. After all, if a string breaks or the singer knocks himself out, who cares? Milwaukee band Worrier sure has one foot in the crowded genre of danceable post-punk, with its prickly, hyper drums and basslines and weirdly yelped vocals, but there’s also something more delicate at work here.
Cactus Club 2496 S Wentworth Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Sprung from the ashes of the Jesus Lizard-inspired Freight and the ’90s-noise-with-’70s-riffs Year Of The Scavenger, Milwaukee’s White Problems takes its name literally—all of its songs are named after first-world bummers that really aren’t that much of a drag. (A standout is “Dude, Where’s My Flix?” about late-arriving Netflix DVDs.) Keeping that conceit in the forefront must do wonders for the band’s live shows, which are usually a series of carefree, shambolic blasts of overdriven bass and driving percussion, topped off by Brian Rogers’ writhing howls. After all, if a string breaks or the singer knocks himself out, who cares? Milwaukee band Worrier sure has one foot in the crowded genre of danceable post-punk, with its prickly, hyper drums and basslines and weirdly yelped vocals, but there’s also something more delicate at work here.
Updated 08/03/2010
