Music Everywhere
Wednesday 13 June @ 11:44:03 |
 
New Primitives Give Opening Bands A Break
by DWIGHT HOBBES
Much as a band like New Primitives rocks you to the bone, making it well worth your while to get down to a club and bump your butt until the cows come home, there’s a residual benefit. Headliners do the late set, keeping the bartender busy and, accordingly, putting a dollar-sign-induced smile on the owner’s face. Nothing wrong with that. But, they also afford low-profile acts with invaluable exposure. You know: the opener. Sometimes the crowd-warmer isn’t worth the time and space he, she or they take up. Sometimes, you discover an exciting up-and-comer. Offered for your appreciation are three richly deserving outfits: Quilombolas, Public Property and Sunshine Behavior, who’ve all opened for ace Afro-Cuban rocking New Primitives.
Quilombolas—Papi U (vocals, drums, percussion), Eric S.B. (vocals, bass, percussion), Levitt8 (guitars, keys, vocals)—is about as intriguing a trio as you’re apt to come by for quite a while. These guys are serious to the bone with cold-blooded chops. Their groove has a Band of Gypsys feel-–sharp, elemental funk with wizened, coat-pulling lyrics. Dig a snippet from “True America” by Eric S.B. and Papi U. It goes, “America was never meant to be 1 place/To think of it as such would be a big disgrace/ Tierra del Fuego, all the islands to the Bering Straight/ That’s the true America now all can relate.” What you gonna do with it? They’re at Trocaderos tonight, 10 p.m., over in Minneapolis’ warehouse district, 107 3rd Avenue North. You can go, check them out or wait around and listen to your friends tell you how bad this band threw down. What more can I say: Go for yours.
Public Property have star quality stamped all over them in block letters. Tight as the crack of dawn, Dave Bess (singer-songwriter/second guitar), Andy Parrott (guitar), Ben Franklin (drums), Jeremiah Murphy (bass), Margaret Larson and Mareva Minerbi (backing vocals) and Paul Hale (keys) throw down with superb reggae rock. Their third album, Movement, wasted no time going out of print, fueled by showcase cut “Follow.” What’s Goin’ Down and Public Property, though, are still available. For the time being, anyway (I wouldn’t waste any time getting to the record store if I was you).
Sunshine Behavior have a strange idea of what it is to give the press essential information. Their basic data: Jeremy Krueth (Hits Stuff); Jimmy Lyback (Fingers Stuff/Pets Stuff); Justin Schommer (Pets Stuff/Fingers Stuff); and Harley Wood (Sings Words). Which, if you’ve caught them in action, really doesn’t surprise: They’ve got the damnedest presentation—a bunch of skinny cats, barely clad, thrashing themselves about in arrhythmic fashion. Don’t let any of it throw you off, because these oddballs have chops to burn. The night I caught them, I was so blown away that when they gave me two demo discs it only made sense to keep one and give the other to a friend. P.S.: Odd or not, they had the crowd completely stoked. And have a cut, “April’s Fools,” that will nail you to the back wall—soft-rock angst that gives—I lie to you not—Gin Blossoms a true run for the good money. Five’ll get you ten: Once Sunshine Behavior releases a disc, stores will have a hard time keeping the thing in stock.
New Primitives headline Thursday nights at The Cabooze, 917 Cedar Avenue near Seven Corners in Minneapolis. Opening on June 14 is YoMama’s Big Fat Booty Band.
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