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Gah: stellastarr*/Wild Light/The Postmarks @ Rock & Roll Hotel
I. The Perils Of *dom
Somewhere between stellastarr*’s self-titled semibreakthrough and Civilized, its latest, self-released effort, the New York band went from benign and enjoyable indie bubblegum to disposable Guitar Hero rock. That much was clear, anyway, at the group’s packed show at Rock & Roll Hotel Friday with Wild Light and The Postmarks. Here is a band that long has inspired easy dismissal, and after three albums seems to have ironed out all idiosyncrasy. The crowd—rollicking, fist-pumping, high-fiving—couldn’t have asked for anything more.
I don’t mean to sound flip. In 2003, stellastarr*’s debut was derivative, sometimes involving stuff that—with its blatant debt to Talking Heads and Pixies—arrived during exactly the right moment of post-punk and college-rock revival. That album’s singles, “Jenny” and “My Coco,” were mainstays of my iPod for months. So I was somewhat nonplussed when stellastarr*’s hour-plus set Friday produced no Proustian flashback to younger days.
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Weekend Music Round-Up
Friday
- An Evening w/ King Sunny Ade & his African Beats. 9:30 club. $25. All ages.
- The Paulverizers, Idle Americans. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
- Oleta Adams. Birchmere. $39.50.
- Novalima, Pistolera. Black Cat. $18/$22. All ages.
- Lovvers, Small Doses, Cigarbox Planetarium. Comet Ping Pong. All ages.
- John Legend, India.Arie. Merriweather Post Pavilion. $36–$109.
- Hello Society, Marbin, Lucky Dub. The Red & The Black. $8. +21.
- Stellastarr, Wild Light, The Postmarks. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12/$14. All ages.
- BLDGS, Screen Vinyl Image, Cobalt & the Hired Guns, The Water. Velvet Lounge. $8. +21.
- Danny Harris (Fatback DC): Mashed Potatoes. Cafe Saint Ex.
- Eastern Music Festival Piano Program. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
- Friday Nights Out Back w/ Chopteeth. Strathmore. $10.
- Aural Tapestry: An Evening w/ All Our Noise, feat. Seas, Typefighter, John & Paul Thornley (of US Royalty). Fort Fringe. $10. See Fringe & Purge for WCP’s take on the best and worst of CapFringe thus far.
