Posted: October 7th, 2009 | Author: Brian | Filed under: Chicago, indie rock, pop | Tags: Beatles, Chicago, Drink Up Buttercup, indie rock, Obama, Photography, pop, Public Option, Rock, Ronny's, Universal Health Care | 1 Comment »
Photo By Pegs: Thanks Pegs
To Recap: Drink Up Buttercup was fan-fucking-tastic. If you missed them on Saturday, you’ll have to catch them when they come back our way post-CMJ, though they’ll most certainly be filling a much larger venue than their Ronny’s gig last weekend.
It was stellar. A loose, pop-inflected, bedraggled, harmonious cacophony of a show. If there was ever a band that exemplified the need for universal health care, it’s D.U.B.. They’re erratic, they’re thrashing, they self-affectedly fall all over each other, they dispose of their instruments by dropping them on the floor, and the quartet (who all quit their jobs to tour) will almost certainly injure each other eventually. Obama! We need a public option!
My pal Pegs took some swell photos. One of which is above, a few more below. You get the idea.
Posted: October 2nd, 2009 | Author: Brian | Filed under: Chicago, indie rock, pop | Tags: Clinic, Drink Up Buttercup, Firey Furnaces, Grizzly Bear, k records, Kurt Weill, Modest Mouse, mp3, Philadelphia | No Comments »
Energetic, shambling, playful, endearingly sloppy; these are things that immediately hit you when listening to Philly’s Drink Up Buttercup. Allegedly, their live show embodies these very same qualities, and you can see them (at eye level no-less) at the stageless Ronny’s this Saturday, October 3rd.
In a fuzzy fracas of keyboards, ghostly harmony, tempo-shifts, and Brit-invasion guitar they immediately call to mind your typical archetypes of these qualities — namely Clinic, Grizzly Bear, Fiery Furnaces, yada yada yada.
But unlike all the bands mentioned above, there are no self-serious tendencies to be found; they’re just too giddy to be so heavy (much less wear surgical masks). Even when they get their stompin’ march on it sounds closer to the clumsy grandeur of a K Records Modest Mouse than the doom & gloom of a Kurt Weill.
That said, listing possible influences is only fun for the one writing them, so it’s best to check them out live… ya know… tomorrow. And, maybe, in the meantime, enjoy these two tracks: