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Jason Anderson
Tonight | ECA
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CHRIS BROOK
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August 7, 2007
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Jason Anderson
As a note on his Web site hints, New Hampshire–based singer-songwriter Jason Anderson will play anywhere — in some circles he’s better known for playing cozy basements than rock clubs. On his third CD, he’s an enthusiastic rock-and-roll merrymaker, largely abandoning his usual forlorn numbers for big multi-part sing-along harmonies that sound more like Springsteen
circa
“Hungry Heart” than anything you’d expect to come out of the heart of New England. Still, he waxes poetic about mosquito bites, hanging out in parking lots, and the sort of small-town kitsch that illustrates his earnestness through the lens of well-worn folk pop. A choir of nearly 50 back-up singers hammer home the choruses of these party anthems while Anderson is left holding the baton. And “July 4, 2006” is so bustling with handclaps and call-and-response refrains that it’s better suited to a summer barbecue than a basement.
Jason Anderson + Ponies in the Surf + Ette | August 15 | T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge | 617.492.2327
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The first two songs on Tiger Saw’s new Tigers on Fire have the phrase “on the stereo” in their lyrics, and the closer, “The Big Bear Song,” says, “Put the record on.” Tiger Saw, "Tigers on Fire" (mp3)
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Sing! isn’t just the emphatic title of Tiger Saw’s third and most recent full-length on Kimchee Records: it’s also the rotating-member-band’s manifesto.
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Dale Watson makes country music the old-fashioned way, cradling his strong baritone voice with weeping steel guitar and fiddle as he spins yarns of love and death.
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Uh, we definitely didn’t download any of the albums illegally and therefore can’t tell you that Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is Spoon’s finest work and a contender for album of the year.
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A vodou priest since his teenage years in Haiti, this singer-songwriter combines mysticism, groove, and myriad sonic surprises.
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The announcement that iTunes will start selling music from conglomerate EMI means you can download songs from artists on EMI and do with them what you please.
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“I heard a sound when I was a child,” Elvis Perkins sings in “It’s Only Me,” a typically introspective folk-pop number from this debut album.
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