Tom MurphyOpeners Shaky Hands seemed fairly steady handed.Meat Puppets with Shaky HandsSaturday, January 24, 2009Bluebird TheaterBetter Than: Not seeing such a deservedly legendary band.Shaky Hands from Portland, Oregon, opened the show with its own brand of countrified indie rock. There was nothing languid about the performance of this four-piece: Bright, chimy guitars and thick, heady leads locking in with dense but dynamic rhythms characterized much of the band's material. Occasionally there
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Often compared to New Wave bands of the early '80s -- especially the Human League --Brooklyn, New York's Red Wire Black Wire, uses synthesizers as a primary compositional instrument. Described by the New Music Express as having an icy sound, the immediacy and sincerity of Doug Walters's vocals helps the music avoid any ironic distancing common to a good deal of synth pop. If anything, Red Wire Black Wire is an indie rock band built on a hip-hop foundation that is heard more in the structu
