The Sw!ms hail from Scranton Pennsylvania and mine a popspace where early Elvis Costello & The Hollies comingle. Their retro-psych stands out all the better due in large part to the strength of the songwriting and their confident playing. The band consists of Brian Langan on vocals, guitars & percussion; Phillip Price on Farfisa and Hammond organs, Moog and Korg synthesizers, Rhodes piano, vocals & theremin; Matt Walsh on bass, vocals, percussion and Neil McCann on drums & percussion. Their most recent album came out in Feb '06 called Ride Of The Blueberry Winter and it sure does rock.
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All three bands were excellent last night, giving the slight nod to The Capitol Years as the best set.
The A-Sides encored with a loose but faithful rendition of Springsteen's Backstreets. Very unexpected and cool.
Somehow my comment on the Thursday Triple Threat ended up attached to the wrong post here.
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