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Thurs March 28 at I-Spy.
This will be my last One-Night Stand column. The Stranger's new music editor has arrived and once she gets settled in (i.e., lines up a new coke supplier), she will officially wrestle the reins from my excessively talented fingers. This will most surely spark some kind of revolt within the music community, but what do I care?
While outgoing music editor Jeff DeRoche has chosen to squander his last real estate within this paper on some 800-word music-has-lost-meaning whimper (see page 37), I have far loftier goals. Namely, a reckless P.R. push for the band the Building Press, an excellent three-piece I caught last Thursday at I-Spy.
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Who are the Building Press? They are Aaron Schroder on guitar, Jeff Woodke on bass, and Jim Acqualvela on drums, and they play powerful, ridiculously intricate instrumental rock and/or roll. Tight, energetic, and [insert another lame adjective here], their songs start slow, then build, then crash. Sprinkled throughout, occasionally, is some sort of Tourette-ish rant by Schroder, along with the odd garbled recording, making the whole set one noisy clusterfuck of sound.
Watching the Building Press, I was reminded of another mostly instrumental band, Canada's Godspeed You Black Emperor! There were differences to be sure--about 30 less members, for one--but the same central idea is shared between the two groups: Rock songs do not have to have a rigid, predictable structure. On-stage, the Building Press flop and jerk about, but their music is so precise it borders on mathematical.
That said, I hereby turn over One-Night Stand to Miss Jennifer Maerz, The Stranger's spankin' (and I do mean spankin') new music editor. Smart, talented, and a mean drunk, she will be penning this column (i.e., a blatant attempt to silence our you-only-write-about-your-friends'-bands critics) from now on. May God have mercy on her soul.
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