Highline Ballroom
431 W 16th St
212.414.5994
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Paul Weller
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Thursday Sep 11, 2008 (9pm)
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$55
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Whether playing deity to the mod-obsessed masses or leaving an indelible impression on future members of Oasis, British rocker Paul Weller has always maintained an inimitable sense of personal style. As leader of the Jam, he helped ease punk into the realm of self-aware pop, meshing the genre's self-obsessed aesthetic with hedonistic tropes of Britain's earlier age. With '80s act the Style Council, Weller tumbled even further into the pop abyss, incorporating elements of new wave, R&B, and jazz into a delectably skittish, po-mo pulp. He's averaged out with age: spanning the great divide, 2008 solo album 22 Dreams explores the happy mediums between alt-rock and unremitting pop.
