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Who: Bishop Allen with Throw Me the Statue and Darwin Deez
When: 9 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St.
Tickets: $10 at www.etix.com or Slowdown’s box office.
Information: www.theslowdown.com or 345-7575
Bishop Allen will sink its hooks into you.
The Brooklyn band’s songs are poppy and full of musical hooks, pieces of music or lyrics that are meant to catch listeners’ ears.
Listening to the band’s latest album, “Grrr...,” leaves you bobbing your head and unable to take off the headphones.
“We’re trying to write music that we like, and the music that we like is hooky,” said Bishop Allen frontman Justin Rice.
Bloggers gave the band a lot of praise when it released one four-song EP each month in 2006. Since then, the group has put out two more traditional releases, including “Grrr...” in March.
The band, named after Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge, Mass., continues to work on new material, but is not exactly striving toward a new album.
“We’re working on songs,” Rice said. “I think we’ll just be sort of like putting everything that we have down in some recorded form and worrying about what the hell it is later.”
Rice said the group will feature four new songs in its current tour, which stops in Omaha Tuesday.
Many people have come to be fans of Bishop Allen through nontraditional means, such as the film “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” The song “Middle Management” was featured in the film’s trailer, and the band also appeared in the film.
Bishop Allen also continues to garner fans from other sources, including the Pandora music service, satellite radio and MP3 sharing.
“There’s just tons and tons of outlets, and as a result, people are more adventurous. I think it’s easier for more (bands) to find an audience, which is great. It’s much more democratic,” Rice said. “That sort of attitude of wanting to seek out stuff and feeling excited about it has been a great thing for bands like us — bands that never will get mainstream radio play. Probably.”
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444-1557, kevin.coffey@owh.com
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