Chiodos w/Motion City Soundtrack
by Chris Parker
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Thursday night’s lineup at Rocketown offers a grab bag ranging from melody-drenched pop punk to cinematic metalcore and emo-prog. After quietly cultivating a grassroots following since 2001, Chiodos burst out of the box with 2005’s debut album All’s Well That Ends Well, blending hardcore breakdowns and graceful keyboard-driven melodies in surprisingly supple angst-filled epics. Last year’s Bone Palace Ballet offers an even grander gothic widescreen about how "belief is a graveyard." Motion City Soundtrack are entering their 12th year of blending irrepressible power pop melodies with careening harmonies, sounding like Weezer covering The Promise Ring. Beneath the white chocolate hooks is a wry humor suggesting singer/guitarist Justin Pierre listened to Ben Folds and Elvis Costello growing up.
Thu., Oct. 2, 6 p.m., 2008
Thu., Oct. 2, 6 p.m., 2008
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