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This has been happening a lot lately. I’ll get some kind of hip, happening CD in the mail. On inspection, the band will turn out to be the bastard child (or legitimate child, so hard to keep track) of some band I drooled over at Splendid years ago…usually to the world’s utter disinterest. As they say on Wall Street, sometimes being early is sorta like being wrong. Anyway, this time it’s Indian Jewelry, and here’s what I said in Philly Weekly:

Indian Jewelry
Mon., May 12, 8pm., $8. With Lesser Known Neutrinos. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. www.johnnybrendas.com

You may not care, but it made my day when I found out that dirgy, feedback-damaged Indian Jewelry were, in fact, the current-day descendants of NTX +Electric (and Swarm of Angels and a whole bunch of other bands). Back in 2003 I slavered over NTX ’s We Are the Wild Beast thusly: “Almost every track buries its hook under off-putting atonalities, skin-stripping dissonance and blinding waves of feedback. It’s the kind of aggressively noise-filled wrapping that cuts your hand as you reach for the melody, yet the hooks are undeniably there.” Five years later these guitar-pedal terrorists still inter radiant pop melodies under miasmic soups of distortion. Main difference: This time they’ve got the bloggers on board. (J.K.)

Here are the remaining dates:
05/08 - New York, NY @ Cake Shop

05/09 - Hanover, NH @ Fuel Rocket Club (Note: The world’s oldest, squarest rock journalist is hoping to make this one…where they’re playing with Parts and Labor!!)

05/10 - Providence, RI @ AS 220

05/11 - New Haven, CT Sundazed Bar

05/12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas

05/14 - Washington, DC @ The Red and The Black

05/15 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506

05/16 - Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light

05/17 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree

And for history buffs, here’s the review I quoted from 2003.

http://www.splendidmagazine.com/review.html?reviewid=107067540751881