I caught a great episode of Austin City Limits last Saturday night. The first half featured Spoon, a band from Austin that reminds me quite a bit of early Elvis Costello with maybe some Husker Du thrown in for good measure. "That's the Way We Get By" is just ridiculously catchy. I've been listening to a mix of about 40 songs at work this week, and this one never fails to shake me free of that awful day job trance.
Ben Kweller took stage for the second half of the show. Like Kweller, I've been playing piano since I could walk and noodling with a guitar for more than a decade. We also both like to write songs. The difference is that he's really good at all three (particularly writing songs), and he recently put out a great debut album, and he's only 22. Bastard. Kweller's also a Texan, and you can hear it in a few songs, especially "family tree" and "Lizzy," which would sound pretty good coming out of Lyle Lovett. At other times I guess you could say he sounds more like Weezer. "How It Should Be" is just great pop.
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