Crown Town Showdown We can’t say enough about how great it is to have an opportunity to catch a bunch of acts for a low price all in the same place. This month’s performers include 2013 Wolves, Actual Proof, Case Federal, Evelyn Rose, Fox Chase and Mad Tea Party. Each band will play a short set – if you don’t like it, it’ll be over quick. If you’re enjoying it, you’ll want to see them again. Thanks to a screening process, the chances are you’ll like every last one of ’em! Alley Cat (Jeff Hahne)
Hamell on Trial Looking and acting something like the geeked-up twin brother of Anton LeVey, Hammell is a high-strung sort of guy, partial to a style of thrash-folk that most certainly won’t be played at your local Starbucks anytime soon (see songs like “Ann Coulter’s Snatch,” which, it pains me to say – I’sa card-carrying pinko – might be one of the single stupidest songs ever laid to paper). Dude sweats like a boar and puts on a hell of an energetic show, to be sure, but in a sort of watching-geriatrics-aerobicizing-in-Boca kind of way – much exertion, little grace. Which is a shame, really – he shows a bent toward lyrical substance and has passion to burn. Unfortunately, Hammell’s seemingly content to keep lighting the musical equivalent of sparklers. The Evening Muse (Timothy C. Davis)
This article appears in Jan 20-27, 2009.
