The Amherst trio had towers of amps stacked up all over the stage, including one that was pointed directly towards front man J Mascis, in case his monitors weren’t providing him enough of his own guitar sound. And not having enough sound has never really been a problem for the group, and it certainly wasn’t on this evening as the band tore through a fiery 90 minute set that spanned the band’s entire career.
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The anger of the song is something that really intrigues me, it’s something that isn’t often portrayed in such an anti-comical fashion amongst commercial hip hop (commercial really only referring to the spectrum of the group’s audience at this point in time). We’ve known for a while that The Roots have a sense of humor, but it seems that with each passing album the group is growing increasingly darker in its tone…this album will be interesting.