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What's not to love about the Miniature Tigers? The hipsterriffic foursome rocks throwback facial hair and bad Christmas sweaters almost as hard as they rock killer harmonies and painfully clever lyrics. (Seriously, we defy you not to love the intent or the rhyme scheme in lines like: "This is not a test or an SOS / I'm no longer on a quest to get girls undressed.") Plus, we support any band that embraces its inner nerd enough to feature a Dharma Initiative sticker on any instrument.

     

Normally, when we go to a show at a standing-room venue like the Electric Factory or the TLA, we try to get there right when, or shortly after, the doors open because, well, we're old farts and like to snag the upstairs bar stools. This is especially true when we're going to a sold-out show. Knowing that the Ben Folds show at the Factory this past Saturday was sold out, we actually arrived there a few minutes before the doors opened. Apparently, we weren't the only ones who got the memo, because the line waiting to get into the show ran through the Factory parking lot, all the way down 7th Street, turned down Willow Street, and made it about 2/3 of the way to 6th Street. So much for our master plan.

About a month ago, when we wrote about Camper Van Beethoven on these pages, we commented that that band's legacy is probably defined less by its own music and more by the number and quality of the bands that it inspired. And now, fittingly, we'd like to tell you about a band that clearly listened to, and learned from, CVB: Miniature Tigers (MySpace).