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Ok, so we arrived at the Electric Factory around 8pm and by 8:30, Thrice had gone on. We don't know what happened to mewithoutyou, but either they went on before the doors opened or they cancelled.
No matter. We've seen them before and they're unique take on song structure, frantically spoken lyrics and visceral stage performance are worth catching, but they won't get your knees buckling or anything.
Thrice, on the other hand, opened with the first track from their most recent release, The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II: Fire and Water. They sampled a couple more from the Fire disc and then settled into some of their tried and true anthems.
Our personal favorite song of the night was, is and always will be, "The Artist In the Ambulance." The title track to their first major label release is pretty well-explained by its title and seeing it played live can be a moving experience.
They rocked their Icarus-inspired tune "The Melting Point of Wax" and reminded the mostly-too-young-to-drive-by-themselves crowd that mythology can, in fact, be cool.
But then it was on to some of the lighter fair from The Alchemy Index, Vol. I: Water. The mosh-heads looked up at the stage like so many confused puppies when the band started in on the mellow sequencing, down-tempo drumming and shimmering guitar work of "Digital Sea," the Water disc's opening song.
All in all, though, the more relaxed but somehow more brooding second half of their set seemed to win the crowd over.
Brand New apparently opened with a few tracks from their newest release, The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me, before performing the crowd-pleaser "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows," and finishing with several other songs.
We, however, are only slightly cognizant of the details regarding Brand New's set. Moreover, we can neither confirm nor deny that this fact is in any way related to our irresponsibly high consumption of PBR and, subsequently, several shots.
But it was.
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i just wish brand new would have played 70 times 7, i mean how can they just forget about where they came from and what got them their big break? i mean, i get it, they're trying to be different musicians than back then but to completely forget your roots? bah!
i will always love thrice and their new age radiohead-esque breakdowns and i was uberly disappointed that mewithoutyou were nowheretobefound.