What’s going on / Music Friday To-Do: Frown Pow’r


Whats going on / Music                    Friday To-Do: Frown Powr

Frown Pow'r plays Maxine's         your ears on their toes. At
Friday night with Bloodless        2:40, "Keep the Bores at Bay"
Cooties and Ezra Lbs.              is a tasty little jangle-pop
FROWN POW'R                        petit four that would work
8 p.m. Maxine's. $5 adv., $7       wonders on a mix tape
door.                              sandwiched in between, say,
Frown Pow'r got started            The Byrds and The Soft Boys.
bashing around in a garage         Or Missing Foundation and
down in Arkamadelphia before       Dagmar Krause. Who knows? Get
moving on over to rampage in       crazy.
the Capital City. The band         Also playing are Little Rock
cut "Don't Doubt It, Shout It!     acts Bloodless Cooties and
" for Thick Syrup Records, an      Ezra Lbs. The former is a
album that will satisfy that       long-running outfit that
burning question that many         shoves all your fave garage
people (well, maybe just me)       rock classics through a
have been pondering: What          blender made out of squealing
might it sound like if the         feedback and broken glass,
Sic Alps had been from             while the latter band
Memphis?                           traffics in rock that could
That is to say, the band           loosely be described as
plays messy roots-psych-pop        Pavement-esque, with hints of
with enough WTF?-ness to keep      Mascis-ian guitar loudness.   

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