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Last Night’s Party:  Band of Horses

Two weeks ago in The New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote, in his (correction) article A Paler Shade of White:  How indie rock lost its soul, about the history of “indie-music” and its lack of relation to “soul, blues, reggae, or funk.”  It took a couple of pages worth of reading to figure out her point, but last night, it took only the first note of Band of Horses frontman Benjamin Bridwell singing Lamb on the Lam (In the City) at Lincoln Theatre to realize that they have just as much soul as they do “white rock”. More on Band of Horses at Lincoln Theatre