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Friday, September 26, 2008
Tonight! The New Year - Tonight!
Posted by Rob Simonsen on Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:10 PM
The New Year - "The End is Near"
After the Austin, Texas-based slowcore group Bedhead had run its course, the brothers at its core—Bubba and Matt Kadane—returned with the New Year. Since their 2001 debut they've made two more albums, their self-titled latest hitting shelves earlier this month. While much more upbeat than their earlier band, an air of melancholy and a powerful sense of focus infuses much of the New Year's music. It stops just short of heading into drone territory, but "resonant pop" might do in a pinch for a quick descriptor. And the group's name is just about perfect: It's less about the unabashed optimism one feels on January 1 as it is the sense of emerging into an unfamiliar world, defiant and bold and uncertain all at once. TC $12-13
As somebody who once found himself driving all the way to Seattle to see The New Year because they didn't make it Portland that year, I can assure you tonight's show is going to be pretty great. Especially the new material off of their latest self-titled record, which is quite possibly the most pop and straightforward they've been in their entire career.
And hell, the last time I saw them they played a Bedhead song in their encore. What more of a reason do you need to go tonight than the prospect of potentially seeing the Kadane brothers playing Bedhead songs live?
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