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The Pseudo Dates

The Pseudo Dates and teamAWESOME!
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Lion’s Lair
Better Than: The average benefit show put together to raise awareness.

I didn’t get to the Lion’s Lair in time for the drag show, but, frankly, drag shows aren’t my thing, so it’s just as well that people who are really into it got to enjoy it without my presence. Nonetheless, it was a benefit show to raise awareness of the demonstrations going on during the Democratic National Convention and the activities that Students for a Democratic Society (they’re not just at Berkeley anymore) were up to related to that whole week or so of chaos that’s going to land in our laps before we know it.

Photo: Tom Murphy

Primasonic

Boss 302 w/Primasonic and The Geds
Saturday, July 26, 2008
3 Kings Tavern
Better Than: Or rather, more fun than, a barrel full of monkeys.

Primasonic had played a few songs by the time I got to 3 Kings and they were very much a different band than the outfit I had seen last October when the band was making one of its initial forays as a live outfit. Sin has become a confident and energetic frontman and the rest of the band has developed into a solid punk rock unit. The songs I got to catch were “Sui-psycho,” “ Escape From the Suburbs,” “Not Another Protest Song” and the band's snotty, but fun, cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” Each piece was short, arch and to the point. The group's Dead Boys-esque sound was dripping for disdain for phony ideals and inauthentic living of all stripes.