Counting Steady
I've been pretty convinced since I first heard them that the Hold Steady are the Counting Crows of the 2000s (albeit many times better).
In case the similarities weren't obvious enough, they've now released an accordion-ladened "unplugged", "VH-1 storytellers"-esque live EP. The resemblance is even stronger. Lots of things I could point out, but I'm too lazy to.
Similarities to horribly uncool bands aside (I live in fear of the day that they turn up on the soundtrack to the latest Shrek movie), they're my favorite discovery of the last year, which you'd all probably know if I'd bothered to write up my 2006 Best Of list. Which I still will do. Maybe even before the first half of 2007 is up!
In case the similarities weren't obvious enough, they've now released an accordion-ladened "unplugged", "VH-1 storytellers"-esque live EP. The resemblance is even stronger. Lots of things I could point out, but I'm too lazy to.
Similarities to horribly uncool bands aside (I live in fear of the day that they turn up on the soundtrack to the latest Shrek movie), they're my favorite discovery of the last year, which you'd all probably know if I'd bothered to write up my 2006 Best Of list. Which I still will do. Maybe even before the first half of 2007 is up!
Labels: music
posted by L. Maxwell Ward at 1:37 AM
