Phillyist Playlist: Hey Rosetta!, 22-20s, and Hot Hot Heat at North Star Bar

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Why would I even suggest something so blasphemous? Well, ever since Panic! at the Disco, we are wary of the curse of the exclamation point. Everyone's favorite Fall Out Boy discovery was walking on air for a while there, cracking the Billboard Top 20 and chilling with Carson Daly, but controversy around the placement of their punctuation shot ripples through the band until two original members left the band in 2009, citing "musical differences." We all know what really went down. However, we think that the placement of the exclamation point at the end of the band name instead of in the middle will help Hey Rosetta! live a long and peaceful life.

This is good timing for Hey Rosetta! to be touring in the United States, with similarly layered outfit Arcade Fire perched at the top of the charts. Hey Rosetta! ups the ante on garage rock by incorporating cello, violin and piano into the mix, resulting in music that is refreshingly light and poetry that lingers like the aftertaste of a good beer. Tim Baker's vocals are out of this world, and the band provides melodic yet explosive rock, keeping that fuzzy garage feel that fits nicely with the tour headliners and Canadian counterparts, Hot Hot Heat. They even have a tune called "Bandages," though it sounds very different than the manic hit that we know from 2002.