Powered by Google
Home
Listings
Editors' Picks
News
Music
Movies
Food
Life
Arts + Books
Rec Room
Moonsigns
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Personals
Adult Personals
Classifieds
Adult Classifieds
- - - - - - - - - - - -
stuff@night
FNX Radio
Band Guide
MassWeb Printing
- - - - - - - - - - - -
About Us
Contact Us
Advertise With Us
Work For Us
Newsletter
RSS Feeds
- - - - - - - - - - - -
Webmaster
Archives



sponsored links
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
PassionShop.com
Sex Toys - Adult  DVDs - Sexy  Lingerie


 
  E-Mail This Article to a Friend
 

*AM STEREO
CAN’T
GENTLEMEN’S RECORDING

*AM Stereo claim to be the "Purveyors of Boston’s Finest Disaster Rock since 1998." Whatever that means or refers to, they are indeed one of the city’s few purveyors of a genre that was once called college rock — a style exemplified in the ’80s and early ’90s by the Replacements and Superchunk. Although that sound has, for now, more or less gone the way of the buffalo, the four guys in *AM Stereo carry on the tradition proudly. On Can’t, picking up where they left off on their first full-length, 2002’s Suffocation Town, they wear their early alt-rock influences on their sleeves. But at a time during which most ’80s-pilferers are copping ideas from new wave bands, the Dinosaur Jr. riffs here sound fresh. And regardless of influence, all three singer-songwriters — guitarists Brooke Fletcher and Jeff Ahearn and bassist Steve Crotty take turns as frontman — know how to pen a good tune. Big power chords give way to untamed guitar leads; desperation and sincerity give way to sarcasm and self-depreciation; and like any good "disaster rock" band, *AM Stereo always sound as though they could fall apart at any moment. They never do.

*AM Stereo + ReducerS | Middle East upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Oct 8 | 617.864.EAST.

BY WILL SPITZ


Issue Date: October 7 - 13, 2005
Back to the Music table of contents
  E-Mail This Article to a Friend
 









about the phoenix |  advertising info |  Webmaster |  work for us
Copyright © 2005 Phoenix Media/Communications Group