April 22, 2009

Pretty & Nice make me feel young

It was worth the drive on an otherwise quiet Sunday night to see Boston’s Pretty & Nice at Denver’s Hi-Dive. After loving their album last year, these guys were the first band I saw at SXSW (in the sparkly pink Beauty Bar) and I was mightily impressed.

This weekend I realized that their angular music is so rad simply because it juts and leaps and shines with threads of punk, woven with catchy melodies….and makes me feel young.

Go see these guys if you get a chance.

PRETTY & NICE SPRING TOUR
Apr 23 – Holy Mountain, Seattle, WA
Apr 24 – Blue Lamp, Sacremento, CA
Apr 25 – Zami Co-op, Santa Cruz, CA
Apr 26 – Knitting Factory, Los Angeles, CA
Apr 28 – Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Apr 30 – Emo’s, Austin, TX
May 1 – Super Happy Fun Land, Houston, TX
May 2 – Spanish Moon, Baton Rouge, LA
May 3 – Swello Venue, Jackson, MS
May 6 – Backbooth, Orlando, FL
May 7 – New World Brewery, Tampa, FL
May 8 – Propaganda, Lake Worth, FL
May 9 – Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
May 10 – Milestone, Charlotte, NC
May 11 – New Brookland, Columbia, SC
May 12 – Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC
May 13 – Soapbox Laundro Lounge, Wilmington, NC
May 14 – Union Hall, Brooklyn, NY
May 16 – Rock N Roll Hotel, Washington, DC

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Bio Pic Name: Heather Browne
Location: Colorado, originally by way of California
Giving context to the torrent since 2005.

"I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It's the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part..."
—Nick Hornby, Songbook
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