Five Sentence Review: Surfer Blood live at Lincoln Hall 11/10/09
Despite my reluctance to enjoy this group, they played their record well, played tightly and did not annoy me with obnoxious and unnecessary stage banter.
These kids are very, very young, and frankly, acted very young on stage, but somehow got the money and production team to put together a decent record, with a few standout hits, including Swim, which you can listen to on their myspace page. Largely, this record is a collection of simple riffs, youthful lyrics and inexperienced (read: shitty) songwriting, but in today's blog-happy music scene, one decent track can get a pretty decent turnout for a young band playing on a Tuesday night. The new Lincoln Hall, brought to you by the people who run Schuba's, seems like a decent show venue, though it felt more like a modern Metro (read: shitty) than a bigger Schuba's.The best part of the show, for my money (I didn't actually pay to get in), was the dude (actual dude pictured, please click through) dancing, jumping, hopping, drumming and looking kinda crazy off to the side of the stage. While it was clear he was a member of the band, he wasn't particularly musical, but was certainly the life of the party. As the last song concluded, this wacko took his large floor drum into the embarassingly old and v-neck sweatered crowd and allowed fans to hit the drum along with him, though many of them were content to document the moment with thier ipho cameras. Ridiculous.
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