Juliana Hatfield, the Damnwells

Michael Lavine

Juliana Hatfield

Details

Juliana Hatfield, the Damnwells Monday, June 28, at Gypsy Tea Room

Related Content

• Overnight, the Former Chumley's in Deep Ellum Became an Open-Air Venue
  January 25, 2012
• Women in (Local) Rock
  July 14, 2011
• Nine Musicians Whose Deleted Tweets We'd Love To Peruse With Undetweetable
  August 2, 2011
• Made a Playlist, Now Checkin' it Twice: By Request, Last Night's Christmas Music Show
  December 25, 2010
• Name Recognition
  September 17, 2009

More About

• Juliana Hatfield
• Aimee Mann
• Concerts and Tour Dates

On her new In Exile Deo, professional indie babe Juliana Hatfield makes a serious move away from the scrappy guitar-pop of her college-radio past toward the mature songcraft of the Aimee Mann set. You know what this means: slower tempos, lots of keyboards, a handful of metaphors so painful I'll spare you their repetition here. Hatfield handles the new turf just fine--her baby-talk coo has aged with aplomb--but much of the music could do with a charge of energy we hope the live performance will provide. New Yorkers the Damnwells muster plenty of energy on Bastards of the Beat; they just have to figure out a way to rip off the Replacements less obviously.