Youth is King
By Jessica Grose 05.23.05 3:00 AM
to Spill, has always looked like your Dad. Now that he’s
shaved his bushy, tufty beard, slightly less so, but it
follows that the rest of Built to Spill is also hirsute and
middle-aged. There was something endearing about Martsch’s
meek presence, something decidedly un-rock ‘n’ roll, but
still lovely to observe for an evening.
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Busted Stuff
By Jessica Grose 05.12.05 3:00 AM
It’s true: I liked Dave Matthews when I was in high school, and to be frank, a song from Under the Table and Dreaming came on my iPod the other day, and I STILL liked it.
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Anger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By Jessica Grose 05.09.05 3:00 AM
Listening to the new Sleater-Kinney album, The Woods, makes the same old dream come back to me. The dream is that I came of age in Olympia, Washington, in the early ‘90s, instead of coming of age in the northeast in the early aughts.
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Tegan and Sara Rock Spin House Live!
In the pantheon of desirable foreign accents, Canadian does not rank high. It is neither exotic nor particularly mellifluous. But Tegan and Sara’s Spinhouse live performance changed all that. Their set was nearly flawless, and their onstage banter, peppered with abooots and hosers, was so darling that for the first time in my life I wished that I had been born in a manger in Saskatoon.
By Jessica Grose 03.07.05 4:00 AM
The Calgary-born twin sisters played an acoustic set that brought down the Spinquarters with its bubbly simplicity. They kicked off a five-song performance with the fourth song off their latest album, So Jealous. The twisting, chirpy harmonies of Tegan and Sara in “I Know I Know I Know,” kept the audience rapt.
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