{"id":1399,"date":"2015-03-03T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesauerbrunreport.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2015-03-03T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:59:11","slug":"1399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesauerbrunreport.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LVL<\/a><\/p>\n

After listening obsessively to LVL UP\u2019s body of work the last six months or so, I finally was able to get to one of their shows. The NYC band (yet another outfit to emerge from the Purchase scene) played on a four act bill at Shea Saturday night. I slipped in a nap after the job and got to the venue in time to see the night\u2019s opening band Doubting Thomas Cruise Control.<\/p>\n

DTCC had just hit the stage as I arrived and they were great. And loud. Shea often strays from the ascending order of importance concept in putting a night\u2019s music together and Doubting Thomas Cruise Control proved that notion. Frontman Bobby Cardos is a wonderful singer\/songwriter. He leads a confident cast that at times can make sounds reminiscent of Richmond Fontaine and The Van Pelt.<\/p>\n

The tune \u201c$10 ATM\u201d sounded great as did \u201cN.D.A.\u201d which included a thoroughbred racing reference. Sings Cardos: \u201cI\u2019m content placing bets on horses that could scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The audience deliberately arrived early to see DTCC and I can see why. I want to see them again for sure.<\/p>\n

LVL UP played the night\u2019s second to last slot and they were as solid as I expected based on their recorded output and several clips of live performances on You Tube. LVL UP\u2019s first three songs went around the horn vocally: Dave Benton to Nick Corbo and then over to Mike Caridi who hunches way over when he plays big hooks. Greg Rutkin is a great drummer. He also drummed on Slight\u2019s set just prior to LVL UP.<\/p>\n

The rotating nature of vocal responsibilities in LVL UP makes it interesting especially because Benton, Corbo and Caridi all have distinct singing\/songwriting styles.<\/p>\n

Corbo and Caridi have backed Mitski when available. Corbo\u2019s the regular drummer in Crying.<\/p>\n

Admission was eight dollars. 12-ounce cans of cold Bud remain just three bucks. What\u2019s not to like about Shea? The club\u2019s boss Adam Reich was on hand to keep the night on pace. Eric Harm (Wicked Kind and Titus Andronicus) worked the small bar. A live recording of the Lame Drivers played in advance of the LVL UP set. The woman at the door is very nice. I think you have to put Shea in the top three best places to see a band right now.<\/p>\n

-Charlie Rose choked badly on his 60 Minutes shot with Larry David. With rare one-on-one access to the comedian, Rose prefaced the piece that aired last Sunday by asking \u201cWho is Larry David?\u201d Rose unfortunately never even scratched the surface of that query. Rose clearly failed to prepare for his subject. It would have helped and probably inspired Rose had he listened to Howard Stern\u2019s recent radio interview with David. Rose sounded dumb when he and David went for a visit to the apartment Larry grew up in. \u201cIt\u2019s a million miles from Broadway to Brooklyn,\u201d said Rose who expressed disappointment that a trip down memory lane didn\u2019t elicit emotion from his subject.<\/p>\n

-Kind of hard to believe the MTA stuck to its scheduled shutdown of the 7 train between Times Square and Jackson Heights last weekend given Sunday\u2019s popular staging of the St. Pat\u2019s for All parade in Sunnyside. The 7 is what most folks from outside the Queens neighborhood would take to reach the parade. Numerous prominent officials who support the parade called on the MTA to run 7 service for the benefit of the parade but the transportation agency said ridership data from years\u2019 past did not warrant altering the train line\u2019s maintenance schedule.<\/p>\n

-If you saw any of Susan Rice\u2019s AIPAC speech on Monday, you\u2019d know the US won\u2019t be party to a nukes deal that doesn\u2018t keep a tight harness on Iran\u2018s ambition to build The Bomb. There\u2019s diplomacy at work here. The US under Obama can have Israel\u2019s back AND push for a negotiated halt to Iran\u2019s nukes simultaneously. That\u2019s not completely crazy. And Netanyahu\u2019s distrust is fine, too. But it\u2019s the height of disrespect to John Boehner\u2019s leadership position, the august House chamber and the US presidency for the Speaker to invite Bibi to his lectern without running it by Obama first. The president is justifiably outraged given both the egregious violation of balance of power protocol and the horrible timing of incendiary politically-motivated escalation of rhetoric during delicate peace talks. I blame Boehner way more than Netanyahu. The US looks like a fool to the world for the widely-transmitted images of a packed house chamber of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle giving standing ovations to a scare-mongering underminer. It\u2019s horrible. Not because debate on the subject isn\u2019t warranted. But both the timing and use of the venue threaten to torpedo what was already a longshot effort to gain a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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