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BALSA GLIDERS
12/04/2009 Doors Open: 7:00 - Headliner Begins: 9:30 Tickets: $8 (Advance) / $10 (Day of Show) Three lawyers, two doctors, a banker, librarian and a priest all walk into a bar…
It's no joke. Channeling the melodic motion of The Smiths and acoustic dust of Uncle Tupelo, North Carolina’s Balsa Gliders are cinching their claim to be the next indie collective —provided they can juggle the demands of their daily lives. So far, their chosen professions haven’t suffered. And the music keeps getting better. The Gliders' debut CD "Cookout" garnered 4.5 stars from AMG All Music Guide before the band took a hiatus to take care of some career moves. The returned lineup is bigger, bulkier and busier than ever after a spate of successful shows throughout North Carolina during the last year in support of their latest album, “Danceable in Victor” (available on iTunes and other digital retailers). The Gliders' performances recall both the energy of old R.E.M. and the ragged spirit of alt-country shows. The combination is turning heads, especially among those who least expect to see the band’s members—who sport ties and collars during the day—taking up residence on stage at local rock clubs. www.myspace.com/thebalsagliders The SwedesStart Time: 8:15
"The Swedes rip a page from the glam revival stroke book, adding fun disco squiggles and chant-along 'whoo!'s to their stadium-rock pomposity" - Time Out NY……"We love the Swedes perky indie-pop - it finds inspiration in early '80s clean-cut new wave rather than in icky '90s college rock" - Time Out NY……"why is this band not taking over the world?" - State of Emergency…"In this modern world, one can build a thriving career based solely on the virtue of taste. Good taste is a cottage industry in our era of interior decorators, personal stylists, and guys named Carson and Kyan. For a rock band, a well-defined and executed aesthetic can also carry a band quite far. The Swedes are a band with impeccable and distinctive taste, that plays punchy, muscular new wave of the late-Seventies British vintage; despite the Scandinavian moniker, their allegiance lies across the North Sea". - The Deli Magazine
The Swedes exist for two reasons alone…to produce exciting, surfing-on-the-edge-of-falling-apart original rock songs and to continually give BS responses to the question “Why are you called The Swedes?”
This entirely non-Swedish New York band has its roots in the Chapel Hill, Vancouver, Providence, and New Orleans scenes, as well as influences from the great British power-pop bands and American hard rock bands of the 70’s & 80’s.
On their latest LP, “Nothing Says Rich Like Golf Clubs”, The Swedes deliver 3-minute rock songs with more hooks than a weekend fishing trip. Solid, economical, yet non-pedestrian arrangements + stacked guitars a la Brian May + analog synths a la the Cars + heavy rhythms and tones reminiscent of the hard rock strains of the 70s. Look for the Swedes to pick up where the New Pornographers, Modest Mouse, and the Shins leave off.
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