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Music: Rock/Pop
White Rabbits

When

Saturday Feb 16, 2008 (10pm)

Where
BAM (BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St, BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave, 718.636.4100)
Price
FREE
Details
http://www.bam.org/events/bamcafelive.aspx#rabbits
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Although White Rabbits' debut, Fort Nightly, wriggled onto countless 2007 year-end lists (and with good reason), the sextet's Carribbean-fried Walkmen-isms were born for the stage. The Rabbits are stunning musicians and showmen to match, with aggressively tickled ivories, dueling lead singers, and layer upon layer of percussion. It's a study in instrumental excess, to be sure — does any band really need two drummers? — but the group inhabits a correspondingly decadent made-up world, where Gatsby-era accoutrements (old-timey suits and hats, lyrics about social niceties gone rotten) adorn dark, catchy indie-pop tunes. Shockingly funky R&B throwbacks Miss Fairchild open.

Todd Goldstein