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April 9, 2008

Austinist Show Preview: Say Anything, Manchester Orchestra + more @ La Zona Rosa

Max Bemis is the man behind California pop outfit Say Anything. Bemis started the band in 2001, self-releasing Baseball that year followed by …Is a Real Boy on Doghouse Records in 2004. The latter was Bemis’ attempt to ease out of the pop-punk category towards what he calls “respectable music” per the band’s website. In fact, he went through quite a contemplative stage as he prepared the album -- “I thought often about what the point of my life was. Was I doomed to remain yet another earnest, upper-middle class bred whine-rocker? After all, hidden deep in the recesses of my mind, I had hidden the notion that I could do something incredible and different, that I could be somebody like Warhol, or Jesus. I had to write an album that was revolutionary in its content and presentation. Finally, one night, it hit me. That was what my record had to be about: the artistic struggle, the fact that every creative person has this sick ambition to affect some sort of change in society with their art, to be more than just a guy in a band or a poet or a sculptor. I couldn’t decide if this ambition was a good or bad thing but I decided to parody that overzealous drive in human beings by crafting a truly over the top musical about...myself.”

Drummer Coby Linder is the only member (besides Bemis) who has remained a part of Say Anything since its inception; Bemis played every other instrument on …Is a Real Boy. In 2007, Say Anything released its first album of new material on J Records titled In Defense of the Genre, a two-disc effort that featured forays into many different genres. The band expects to release This Is Forever, also on J Records later this year.

Georgia’s Manchester Orchestra support with material off 2006’s I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, originally released on Favorite Gentlemen and then again on Canvasback Music in 2007. The band’s well-crafted pop ditties and easy-on-the-ears, soaring melodies are perfectly complemented by singer Andy Hull wistful lyricism. Make sure you get there early to catch them live, along with sets by Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves and Weatherbox.

[Say Anything MySpace]
[Manchester Orchestra MySpace]
[Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves MySpace]
[Weatherbox MySpace]


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Comments (3)

Your links to the bands myspaces are a little jacked.
Also, The True Loves are Eli Reed's backing band. Here is their MySpace page.

Awesome band. Caught their set during SXSW. Perfect if you're into that retro motown sound. I dig it...

 

definitely! the true loves with Eli will prolly be the best show of that line-up...

 

sorry about the links, fixed those...

 
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