Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Lake and the Beats, Man
$10
8pm doors
21 & over
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band may not be your catchiest rock'n'roll moniker -no one's mistaking it for The Strokes or Black Flag- but its five words stand for a Seattle band whose five members keep it close to home. Flanking frontman Benjamin Verdoes are, amongst others, his wife, Traci Eggleston, on keyboards, and his 13-year-old brother, Marshall, on drums. MSHVB, in fact, came into being as a form of fraternal encouragement. When Marshall took up the drums as an 11-year-old, Benjamin promised him that when he got good enough, they'd start a band together. And sure enough, by 2008, the two Verdoes bros had themselves a Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.
As Verdoes and Dammer play off each other, their nimble-fingered riffin' recalls guitar heroes from Thin Lizzy to King Crimson, Television to Pavement, with hints of the sprawling fretboard workouts of psychedelic Dead Oceans label-mates Citay. Yet they're not guitar-nerds, either: sharp, shouty pop-songs like "Anchors Dropped" and "Dull Reason" sparkling with the kind of effervescent indie klang that'll appeal to fans of bands like Modest Mouse and Wolf Parade.- Anthony Carew
http://www.myspace.com/mtsthelensvietnamband
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mt-St-Helens-Vietnam-Band/66225111936
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band may not be your catchiest rock'n'roll moniker -no one's mistaking it for The Strokes or Black Flag- but its five words stand for a Seattle band whose five members keep it close to home. Flanking frontman Benjamin Verdoes are, amongst others, his wife, Traci Eggleston, on keyboards, and his 13-year-old brother, Marshall, on drums. MSHVB, in fact, came into being as a form of fraternal encouragement. When Marshall took up the drums as an 11-year-old, Benjamin promised him that when he got good enough, they'd start a band together. And sure enough, by 2008, the two Verdoes bros had themselves a Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band.
As Verdoes and Dammer play off each other, their nimble-fingered riffin' recalls guitar heroes from Thin Lizzy to King Crimson, Television to Pavement, with hints of the sprawling fretboard workouts of psychedelic Dead Oceans label-mates Citay. Yet they're not guitar-nerds, either: sharp, shouty pop-songs like "Anchors Dropped" and "Dull Reason" sparkling with the kind of effervescent indie klang that'll appeal to fans of bands like Modest Mouse and Wolf Parade.- Anthony Carew
http://www.myspace.com/mtsthelensvietnamband
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mt-St-Helens-Vietnam-Band/66225111936
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