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Party in the Back
Back in April, I wrote about my then obsession with High Waisted's On Ludlow. That really hasn't subsided. The album has been one of my goto records for late-night drives back from Asbury Park or Brooklyn, and it is just solid solid from front to back. I caught the second half of one of High Waisted's sets at South By Southwest; but, since then, the stars have never aligned so that I could see them again. On Thursday night, they finished up their recent tour at Long Branch's Brighton Bar and were even better than I could have expected.
It was an eclectic bill featuring the GBV-inspired rock and power pop of Trans Charger Metropolis, the shoegaze / dream pop of Lunch Ladies, and the heartfelt pop punk of Teenage Halloween in addition to the headliners. All of the openers turned in fine sets, Trans Charger Metropolis not showing any of the rust of an extended layoff and the two younger bands playing to an enthusiastic crowd of friends.
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| Trans Charger Metropolis |
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| Lunch Ladies |
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| Teenage Halloween |
High Waisted played almost all of the songs from On Ludlow, including surf instrumentals "Shanghai Spy" and "Kitchen Safari." At the end of "Hey Hey," Emily from Dentist turned to me shaking her head and just said, "That is a great song." Singer Jessica Louise Dye made all of her demanding vocal parts seem easy -- even after a 3-week tour of singing night after night -- and she and guitarist Stephan Nielsen squeezed some of the most amazing tones out of their rigs. They closed with an aggressive cover of classic "Miserlou" that was just amazingly fantastic.
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Pics of all the sets are in the Flickr galleries and on the Facebook page. High Waisted return home to New York tonight with a show at Knitting Factory Brooklyn that also features Total Slacker and Lionlimb.
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