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Wednesday, November 9, 2005

New band alert: Silversun Pickups

Posted by on November 9 at 10:29 AM

While our news team was hard at work covering the election beat last night, I was, um, well, at work checking out live music, and I stumbled into a great new band. After unfortunately arriving at the Crocodile late, booker Pete Greenberg told me to hurry into the show room to check out this “amazing band” on stage. Their name? Silversun Pickups. Their energy? High. The crowd? Completely smitten….and moving from an awestruck standstill to the slight pogoing indie kids get worked up into to show some affection in this town. The band truly were amazing….a little Earlimart, a little Pixies, a lot of intricate twists and turns in the melodies, angst meets elation meets a boy singer with a soft delivery who also knows how to scream. All this and the band has barely played Seattle before (although KEXP has given them some love)—but people seemed more into them than headliner Brendan Benson, who put on a decent show. But Silversun Pickups—man, keep an ear on these guys, the next time they come through I think there will be little breathing room in the house.