Jason Collett
Schubas - Chicago
March 29th 2008
A relieved Jason Collett took stage at Schubas with his brand of twang pop: battling both exhaustion and the standard array of tour bus debacles. But you wouldn’t have known better if he hadn’t told us. He swayed the crowd through much of his latest Here’s To Being Here including a spot on ‘Roll On Oblivion’ and ‘Out of Time’.
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Oxford Collapse has little to be embarrassed about. Their 2006 Remember the Night Parties was hailed by press yet it eluded the public. Radically raucous in an adolescent way, the album dodged musical stereotypes. This month marks the release of their middle-aged response Bits; the result of a thirty song plethora of material condensed to thirteen unyielding anthems. The album dives more daringly into their brand of post-punk (if you can even all it that) by relying less on lyrical pop (if they even sing like that) and instead favors a wave or rocking guitar revelry (if they’d even admit to that). We take a look at a band that might be on the verge of subsiding simply because we never knew of them. ‹read more›
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