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Ben Kweller w/Sleeper Agent & The Dig 

When: Sun., April 1, 8 p.m. 2012
Price: $20
On his new full-length release Go Fly a Kite, California-born, Texas-raised singer and songwriter Ben Kweller reveals affinities to such power-pop artists as Emitt Rhodes and The Raspberries, not to mention the Rhodes epigone Ben Folds. Kite combines folk rock with occasional power chords and guitar licks that are just acid enough to enliven Kweller’s often pained commentaries on the terrors of becoming an adult. “My deepest cut came from out in L.A. / Tried to take all my friends away,” he sings in “Mean to Me,” while the very Emitt Rhodes-like “Gossip” sports a passage in 5/4 time. “Time Will Save the Day” may be Kite’s most accomplished rocker, but I also like the way Kweller messes around with the rhythmic underpinning of his pop gospel tune “I Miss You.” Nice-guy almost-power-pop rarely gets more genial than this.
— Edd Hurt

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