event The Evening Rig
Also Playing: Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo and Curtiss A and Box Thieves
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Tue Oct 27
9 pm
The Evening Rig, Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, Curtiss A, and Box Thieves at Uptown Bar & Café
Nostalgia remains one of the most powerful forces in rock—a fact Twin Cities combo The Evening Rig uses to its advantage throughout its second album, Is Doin’ Stuff. On this set of heartland reminiscences, The Evening Rig takes the throat-searing intensity of Jason Miller’s prior band, pop-punkers The Crush, and sets it atop vastly different sonic terrain: a pleasing mix of 'Mats-styled rumble and acoustic bar-room weepers. Whether going full-throttle or humming along in a lower gear, Miller’s songs stick to what he knows—bar rooms, broken hearts, and nights of teenage debauchery gone by. It’s a formula The Hold Steady has ridden to massive success, and although Miller’s not quite Craig Finn's equal as a wordsmith (who is?), his band possesses equally meaty hooks.
Uptown Bar & Café 3018 Hennepin Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
Nostalgia remains one of the most powerful forces in rock—a fact Twin Cities combo The Evening Rig uses to its advantage throughout its second album, Is Doin’ Stuff. On this set of heartland reminiscences, The Evening Rig takes the throat-searing intensity of Jason Miller’s prior band, pop-punkers The Crush, and sets it atop vastly different sonic terrain: a pleasing mix of 'Mats-styled rumble and acoustic bar-room weepers. Whether going full-throttle or humming along in a lower gear, Miller’s songs stick to what he knows—bar rooms, broken hearts, and nights of teenage debauchery gone by. It’s a formula The Hold Steady has ridden to massive success, and although Miller’s not quite Craig Finn's equal as a wordsmith (who is?), his band possesses equally meaty hooks.
Updated 10/23/2009
