event Bowling For Soup
Also Playing: Suburban Legends
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Sat Nov 14
7 pm
Bowling For Soup and Suburban Legends at Station 4
The pop-punk sound that bands like Blink-182 and Good Charlotte made huge in the '90s couldn't help but sound dopey and self-deprecating, and Texas' Bowling For Soup has made a key strength of that fact since forming 15 years ago. The new Sorry For Partyin' stays the course: The vocal melodies are catchy but nasally, the playing's feisty but polished, song titles include "My Wena" and "Hooray For Beer," and the cover depicts the band members jumping into a toilet bowl. Factor in some sensitive-guy moments, and it adds up as a more sincere and competent effort than what Weezer's hocking up these days, even if it is another disc built on Bowling For Soup's well-established shtick.
Station 4 201 E. 4th St., Twin Cities, MN
The pop-punk sound that bands like Blink-182 and Good Charlotte made huge in the '90s couldn't help but sound dopey and self-deprecating, and Texas' Bowling For Soup has made a key strength of that fact since forming 15 years ago. The new Sorry For Partyin' stays the course: The vocal melodies are catchy but nasally, the playing's feisty but polished, song titles include "My Wena" and "Hooray For Beer," and the cover depicts the band members jumping into a toilet bowl. Factor in some sensitive-guy moments, and it adds up as a more sincere and competent effort than what Weezer's hocking up these days, even if it is another disc built on Bowling For Soup's well-established shtick.
Updated 08/03/2011
