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BAD RABBITS LIVE SHOW
Brighton Music Hall - Boston, MA / December 31, 2012
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right - and for many local music fanatics it was at Brighton Music Hall with the hardest working band in Boston: Bad Rabbits. Despite selling out the venue (which is a usual occurrence for them) and being backed by a horn section, the show felt remarkably intimate since the audience was full of experienced concert-goers whose musical appetites were just as insatiable as the first time they saw BR. Playing on our fervor, they indulged us by opening their set with “We Can Roll,” their latest single, which masterfully balances hypnotic rock rumblings with soulful stirrings and yearning vocals.
by Candace McDuffie photos by Ashley Anne Jones
But everyone in attendance was patiently waiting for the classics. And of course, the boys delivered with a looser and less deliberately stylized approach. “Neverland” was an effortless sing-along, “Girl, I’m Like Damn” was infused with a brash sort of energy, and “Can’t Back Down” was highlighted by fans running onstage only to crowd surf right off. By the end of the night, covered in our sweaty, post-coital performance glow, we all were reminded of one thing: ain’t no party like a Bad Rabbits party, ’cause a Bad Rabbits party don’t stop.
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