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Family of the Year Setlist
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80's band Frankie Goes to Hollywood once sang about 'Two Tribes' and when the SoCal-based Family of the Year/Mowgli's tour rolled into the packed Triple Rock Social Club Saturday night, two tribes grooving to SoCal harmonic rock, was what the evening was all about.
The evening began with relative newcomers, The Mowgli's, playing a solid set of rootsy West Cost folk/pop that more than a little suggested they were the next generation of Haight-Ashbury hippie musicians. The seven-piece band (Michael Vincze, Colin Louis Dieden, Katie Jayne Earl, Matthew Di Panni, Josh Hogan, Dave Appelbaum and Spencer Tren) crowded the small Triple Rock stage, but engaged the audience with songs from their recently released full-length, Sound The Drum (Island/Def Jam), including 'Carry Your Will', 'Time', and the current radio fave, 'San Francisco'. 4 to 5 of the members traded the lead vocal role in their brief set, complete with tambourines, a kazoo keyboard, and a distinct peace and love mood to all their songs.
The positive energy continued with fellow Los Angeles-based Family of the Year (brothers Joe and Sebastian Keefe, James Buckey, Christina Schroeter, Alex Walker) taking the stage next, for 50 more minutes of feel good vibes and melodies, promoting their recent full-length, 'Loma Vista' (Nettwerk). Beginning with 'Buried' with its ominous lyrics against lightened harmonies, then commenting how good the audience looked, the band next went into a buoyant 'Chugjug' from their first record, several crowd members scratching their head looking for recognition, likely not realizing it was also the soundtrack for an Advil commercial. Their alt-folk stylings with male/female vocals were an immediate hit with the crowd, the band commenting that Minneapolis was their first sellout ever (a late Jan. gig at 7th St Entry), making their Triple Rock sellout a bit of a victory lap.
The crowd sang along to 'Living on Love' and 'St Croix', the latter with its infectious chorus, "You bring the ocean, I'll bring the motion, Together we'll make a love potion". A raucous 'In the End' followed, then the crowd hushed for the radio single 'Hero', which had many whispering the lyrics back in unison. Momentum picked back up with 'Stupidland' before ending the set with an almost-disco / Scissor Sisters-like 'Psyche or Like Scope' (from their first ep), with the appropriate ending lyric, "oh yeah, we've got somewhere to go tonight". Both bands turned up the energy live, versus a more laid back feel of their recorded songs, and willingly attracted the Minnesota crowd into a taste of SoCal soulful harmonic folk/pop. Family of the Year even kept the West Coast good-feeling groove alive by offering their latest CD at the merch table at a price of "whatever you can pay". Peace and love indeed.
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THE MOWGLI'S SETLIST
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The positive energy continued with fellow Los Angeles-based Family of the Year (brothers Joe and Sebastian Keefe, James Buckey, Christina Schroeter, Alex Walker) taking the stage next, for 50 more minutes of feel good vibes and melodies, promoting their recent full-length, 'Loma Vista' (Nettwerk). Beginning with 'Buried' with its ominous lyrics against lightened harmonies, then commenting how good the audience looked, the band next went into a buoyant 'Chugjug' from their first record, several crowd members scratching their head looking for recognition, likely not realizing it was also the soundtrack for an Advil commercial. Their alt-folk stylings with male/female vocals were an immediate hit with the crowd, the band commenting that Minneapolis was their first sellout ever (a late Jan. gig at 7th St Entry), making their Triple Rock sellout a bit of a victory lap.
The crowd sang along to 'Living on Love' and 'St Croix', the latter with its infectious chorus, "You bring the ocean, I'll bring the motion, Together we'll make a love potion". A raucous 'In the End' followed, then the crowd hushed for the radio single 'Hero', which had many whispering the lyrics back in unison. Momentum picked back up with 'Stupidland' before ending the set with an almost-disco / Scissor Sisters-like 'Psyche or Like Scope' (from their first ep), with the appropriate ending lyric, "oh yeah, we've got somewhere to go tonight". Both bands turned up the energy live, versus a more laid back feel of their recorded songs, and willingly attracted the Minnesota crowd into a taste of SoCal soulful harmonic folk/pop. Family of the Year even kept the West Coast good-feeling groove alive by offering their latest CD at the merch table at a price of "whatever you can pay". Peace and love indeed.
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Family of the Year at Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis (04/13/13) |
