Band shares 'Love' with all-ages
Karan 'Sunjay' Rampall
Issue date: 3/6/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
"I feel like this is something a lot of the other bands in town should take the time to do. We're all very busy both in and outside the band, but we make sure our stuff gets out there. Shit, I spent over three hours earlier tonight printing out and cutting handbills. People just can't rely on the Internet to get people out to shows," Justin R, guitarist/vocalist, said.
It can't be overstated enough that Love City have everything required of a band, all in balance and in harmony. They have style, but not too much to make them plastic. Their music has substance but not in an excessive or inscrutable way. They have shared bills with King Khan & the Shrines, Film School, Japanese Motors, Cheeseburger, Women and most recently Reigning Sound.
Love City bows in with an eagerly awaited EP. The first track, titled "I Can't Stop (The Ringing In My Ear)" sums up their aesthetic: breathless, soaked in whisky and looking for a tobacco cigarette after the show. It's truly zen for a band to realize that getting beer thrown on stage is a compliment.
Great bands start with great names. Love City: it's simple, adequate, effortless, yet they claimed a name that says Philadelphia better than any band in recent memory. Bells, Bells, Bells ain't bad, though.
For the uninitiated, see their live show soon, before Love City departs our city for national and international tours. Typically, we don't get to keep a band like this relegated to Philadelphia-only venues for very long. You go see a Love City show because the guys and gal have figured out something you haven't - what rock 'n' roll is all about. Their sound traces back to late '60s/early '70s rock, but they're also informed of all the intermediate evolutions in-between leading into our present age.
Quite simply, it's a style of music that ages well. Name dropping all the garage, psychedelic, surf rock, sock hop, moon tune familiars doesn't do their sound any appropriate justice - check out www.myspace.com/lovecityband.
Love City will be playing the Khyber (21+) March 7, but if any of you youngins' can't make the Khyber date, a special all-ages R5 show will take place at the Barbary March 8 starting at 6:30 p.m.
It can't be overstated enough that Love City have everything required of a band, all in balance and in harmony. They have style, but not too much to make them plastic. Their music has substance but not in an excessive or inscrutable way. They have shared bills with King Khan & the Shrines, Film School, Japanese Motors, Cheeseburger, Women and most recently Reigning Sound.
Love City bows in with an eagerly awaited EP. The first track, titled "I Can't Stop (The Ringing In My Ear)" sums up their aesthetic: breathless, soaked in whisky and looking for a tobacco cigarette after the show. It's truly zen for a band to realize that getting beer thrown on stage is a compliment.
Great bands start with great names. Love City: it's simple, adequate, effortless, yet they claimed a name that says Philadelphia better than any band in recent memory. Bells, Bells, Bells ain't bad, though.
For the uninitiated, see their live show soon, before Love City departs our city for national and international tours. Typically, we don't get to keep a band like this relegated to Philadelphia-only venues for very long. You go see a Love City show because the guys and gal have figured out something you haven't - what rock 'n' roll is all about. Their sound traces back to late '60s/early '70s rock, but they're also informed of all the intermediate evolutions in-between leading into our present age.
Quite simply, it's a style of music that ages well. Name dropping all the garage, psychedelic, surf rock, sock hop, moon tune familiars doesn't do their sound any appropriate justice - check out www.myspace.com/lovecityband.
Love City will be playing the Khyber (21+) March 7, but if any of you youngins' can't make the Khyber date, a special all-ages R5 show will take place at the Barbary March 8 starting at 6:30 p.m.
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