The Independent
628 Divisadero St
415.771.1422
This event has passed.
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Photo: Weston Walker
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Tuesday Mar 30, 2010 (8pm)
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- Price
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$15
“Chris Chu has come a long way since he paid the bills by working as a male nanny. The Berkeley music major is now the frontman for sunny-sounding the Morning Benders. They've toured with the Kooks and their sophomore album Big Echo (produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor) just got released by Rough Trade. For the single "Excuses," they enlisted Christopher Owens from Girls, John Vanderslice, and members of the Mumlers to pile into the Mission's Different Fur studio and create a Bay Area Wall of Sound. Tonight they get their cozy, floor-scuffing groove on, with the Mumlers supporting.”
Michelle Broder Van Dyke, Flavorpill
The Independent says:
The title to the Benders' sophomore effort and Rough Trade debut, Big Echo, appropriately evokes their sonic shift in the past two years. The album is a homecoming of sorts, as it finds the Morning Benders correcting their PacNW indie pop identity crisis in favor of a more coastal, kaleidoscopic California haze.
