Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears/The Pendletons - Mercury Lounge

Last night, Mercury Lounge. Two bands, two completely different musical experiences.

Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears, combining ecstatic energy, brilliant musicianship, high concept musicality with flourishes of Zappa, Devo, ELO, early Genesis, mixing elements of psychedelia, classic rock, indie, and prog into their sonic stew. An insanely great show by the band last night, fueled up with excitement over their new CD Flight of the Knife (due for an April 1st release on LA indie Black & Greene Records).

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Watch the last few minutes of their set right here - it captures all the insane tempo changes, sheer musicality and energy in one go!




The Pendletons played just prior to Bryan Scary, and were just as impressive, but in a completely different manner. The band had tightly bundled energy, clean songs, sunny vocals and an amazingly deft drummer. Clearly the brains of the band. :-)

All the songs sounded great, and lead singer Adam Saunders has a warm, bright way of singing. I felt he could use some help with some backing vocals to lessen the similarity of the songs, but it didn't detract too much. Watch the clip below of their rockin' track Sad Songs from the band's CD Oh Me.

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