It’s been a long year–exacerbated by a miserable economy, more war, the heightened threat of global warming—so take your mind off it all with the good that happened. Like, for instance, a year full of great music we posted!
The band is young, the drummer is a junior in high school but they perform with the fervor and frenzy of the early CBGBs scene makers. What struck me most by the 45 minute set was that the diverse crowd stuck with the band from the first song through the encore that they demanded from the band. This band calls to the forefront an energy that has all but dissapeared in contemporary music in decades and somehow, bafflingly, they infuse pop into the cocktail without polluting this sweet and volatile mix. The Shackeltons are a thing to behold. .