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Why Don't You Go and Spread the Word (Voxtrot, Rothko)
Austin, TX five-piece Voxtrot is going to write one of those catchy, bouncy songs that'll stick in your head for days -- and while it's there, you're not going to mind it. Solid indie pop, good -- if sometimes too-wordy -- songcraft. It's tough to judge by these afternoon shows (the room was pretty full, when they went on a little after 3pm), but I would have liked a little more oomph. There's not much going on in the lower register, and though there was some hopping and nodding, there wasn't much rawking. It would have been great to hear them just rip into one of their ditties.
They don't sound like the smooth 80's-revival band that recorded "Missing Pieces" (listen on their myspace site)-- thank goodness. There's too much of that out there, right now, already.
The band's been bopping around NYC a lot, recently; their manager lives in town, so thank him. Central Village wrote about these guys in the Gothamist last month, and Brooklyn Vegan caught them at Tribeca Rock Club, yesterday. I was going to check them out yesterday at an earlier Pianos show; that got cancelled because the venue couldn't get their sound guy there on time.
Okay. Walking the dog, going to try to get into The Comas, and then SubPop.
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