The Dears At The Echoplex

Why is it that Canadian music just does it for me? I mean, so do the Swedes and the Brits...but there are so many times I go - where is the band from and the answer is Canada. They already have comedy...and music too? Lucky kids.

Saturday night, (May 23) The Dears performed at The Echoplex along with Great Northern and The Eulogies. I missed the first two bands (oops...well caught some of Great Northern), because I was enjoying my dinner so much with my group at Cafe Stella. It was fitting that our waitress there would be Canadian too.

I never really thought about who the Dears sounded like, and I never really explained what they sounded like until that night when a non music friend joined us and asked what they were like. I said, like The Doves meets Radiohead. That probably didn't help him since he doesn't know who The Doves are, and probably only knows the song Creep by Radiohead. So, we get to the show and we're being silly. So much so that I didn't focus so much on the band as much as I did o the fun time I was having hanging in the back laughing so hard....but I heard so many more bands in them than I ever did before. The Swell Season, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, and even some Seal. Yes, Seal. The singer sort of sounds like him! They were great. I thoroughly enjoyed them, even though my friends were a huge distraction, but a pleasurable distraction.