City Newspaper Archives - 9/2007
ROCK: Old Boy (9/7)
Published by Dayna Papaleo on Sep 05, 2007
Old Boy
MONTY'S KROWN, 875 MONROE AVE.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
10 P.M. | $3 | 271-7050
It certainly ain't news that a patchwork of former/current members of music-scene bastions Low Ton, Gaylord, Babayaga, BML, and Bee Eater would come off rather heavy. Yet Old Boy is also startlingly rootsy, the melancholy twang of its members' Americana sensibilities clear in Dan Wesolowski's occasional banjo and Brian Mason's intervallic pedal steel, while Andy Schmitz continues to channel the voice of a desolation angel. Old Boy makes it tough to describe its sound - swatches of Uncle Tupelo, Screaming Trees, Pink Floyd, maybe even a little Malmsteen - so let's call it heirloom-quilt metal and be done with it.
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Old Boy plays Monty's Krown Friday, Sep 7.
