event Ted Leo And The Pharmacists
Also Playing: Title Tracks and The Dynamiters
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Shawn Brackbill
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Shawn Brackbill
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Mon Mar 15
7:30 pm
Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Title Tracks, and The Dynamiters at First Avenue
Though people invariably peg Ted Leo's songwriting as "literary" and "political" above all, his dense tangles of English only serve to fuel his scorched-earth campaign to rescue pop and punk by way of positive attack. Even when the Bush administration weighed on him the heaviest—on 2004's relatively stripped-down Shake The Sheets—Leo kept wrapping punk, reggae, soul, and ska into one defiantly exuberant bundle. As if to remind everyone of all the desperation and outrage that fuels the lovely hooks, Leo often steps down from his signature falsetto vocals for the new The Brutalist Bricks, which might prove to be his catchiest and most savage release at once. All the better to fuel one of the most furious live performers in rock.
First Avenue 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Though people invariably peg Ted Leo's songwriting as "literary" and "political" above all, his dense tangles of English only serve to fuel his scorched-earth campaign to rescue pop and punk by way of positive attack. Even when the Bush administration weighed on him the heaviest—on 2004's relatively stripped-down Shake The Sheets—Leo kept wrapping punk, reggae, soul, and ska into one defiantly exuberant bundle. As if to remind everyone of all the desperation and outrage that fuels the lovely hooks, Leo often steps down from his signature falsetto vocals for the new The Brutalist Bricks, which might prove to be his catchiest and most savage release at once. All the better to fuel one of the most furious live performers in rock.
Updated 07/12/2011
