Dan Auerbach plays the second of two New York area shows tonight at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan, with openers Hacienda, which will also form his backing band, and Those Darlins. They performed last night at the Williamsburg Hall of Music in Brooklyn and the night before at Boston's Paradise Club. There, the Boston Herald says, he took "the ragged, groovy, electrified vibe of a classic Fillmore set" and fit it "with a post-grunge, post-punk, post-Black Sabbath fury," to create "original, jagged, fire-spitting guitar workouts fit for today."
Dan Auerbach plays the second of two New York area shows tonight at the Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan, with openers Hacienda, which will also form his backing band, and Those Darlins. They performed last night at the Williamsburg Hall of Music in Brooklyn and the night before at Boston's Paradise Club.
Boston Herald's Jed Gottlieb says that with his Sunday night set at the Paradise, Dan came "close to re-creating the ragged, groovy, electrified vibe of a classic Fillmore set," circa the famous club's Jefferson Airplane heyday.
Gottlieb sees further '60s credentials in one song that "sounded like David Crosby covering Dylan around a Laurel Canyon campfire," another that got the band in "a deep Cream groove," and still another in which "Auerbach has conjured up the best Creedence tunes John Fogerty never wrote."
The latter, when performed live, is "infused with a post-grunge, post-punk, post-Black Sabbath fury," the reviewer reports. That, he says, is a very good thing. "In fact, it gave every song a freshness and stamped each as distinctly Auerbach’s," Gottlieb asserts, creating "original, jagged, fire-spitting guitar workouts fit for today."
Read the concert review at news.bostonherald.com. For more tour information, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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