Last Friday I hit up Crash Mansion for some free drinks and pool. While I was there, I caught Boston-based Say When. They were very high energy and I had a lot of fun watching them perform, particularly the bass player who liked to dance around a lot in his very cool brightly colored hoody and giant yellow sunglasses. On stage (though not in this picture) they looked like your fairly typical hipster band - tight pants, very deliberate t-shirts for that "not trying too hard" look - although they didn't have the long emo-to-the-side hair and coke-induced anorexic-looking skinniness. But while they may have looked a bit like hipsters, their music is actually more in the rock genre than the indie-pop genre. I like to call it rally rock - you know, that kind of rock music that often attracts rowdy teenage moshers who yell along to the music and make rock signs in their air with their hand while they jump up and down. It's like a high energy mix of classic rock and emo rock (think Bruce Springstein meets Nickelback but a little more danceable).I have to give them credit for the amount of energy they maintained considering the lack of audience energy, as well as the lack of lighting. There was like one spotlight on the stage and so most of the band was half in the dark the whole time. The bass player was the only one who seemed to know how to find the spotlight (or maybe it was his fluorescent clothing that made it seem like he was in the spotlight...). I actually got very into their music, even though it's typically not really my scene, because their performance was so much fun. So check them out. They're going on tour in the US in February. Check their myspace for dates.
And some mp3s for you to sample:
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