Lamps
with Mayyors, Christmas Island, and Wound Lion
- When
- Fri Aug 28, 2009
- Where
- Hemlock Tavern
- Time
- 9pm
- Cost
- $7
- Tags
- Music, Other Music
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"Making good rawk isn’t just about mass and velocity. A healthy dose of jab-yourself-in-the-eye absurdity—unrelated to the knowing, NPR-caliber quirkiness that personifies so much current pop culture—can make an intense band that much more memorable. So it’s a minor mystery that the name Lamps isn’t seen on more (any?) T-shirts around the LES and Brooklyn. Perhaps it’s just provincial distrust of the trio’s L.A. address, because Lamps’ raw second album roars and veers like a drunk with a chain saw. While having a frontman named Monty Buckles and surrounding a song called “Fred Astaire” with ones titled “Anvil” and “Javelin” displays some barbed inanity, ultimate proof of this group’s superiority lies in the pounding “Poolfish”: After a storm of guitar shards blasts away any semblance of the tune, the rhythm section calmly reenters, swinging like veteran badasses."-Mike Wolfe, Time Out New York
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