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The New Amsterdams
the aforementioned Punk Rock. The band
promises instrument switching just like old
times, and songs from all Sebadoh eras.
Sebadoh and The Bent Moustache play at 8
pm Monday, March 5 at the WOW Hall. $12
adv., $14 door. — Vanessa Salvia
the years since, Pryor has
steadily released music under
the New Amsterdams name,
including, most recently,
2006’s Story Like a Scar. The
band no longer sounds like a
side project, a place for Pryor’s
thoughtful bedroom balladry.
It sounds like a band, now with
a regular lineup and a just-
under 30-minute collection of
new songs written, for the first
time, by the group as a whole.
Like earlier New Amsterdams
releases, the album tips toward
the introspective and low-key
but makes room for a handful
Life in Old New York
In 2000, then-Get Up Kids frontman
Matt Pryor released what was essentially a
solo record (with the backing of a handful
of musicians), Never You Mind, as The New
Amsterdams. At the time, it seemed like a
fluke: quiet, acoustic songs with similar lyri-
cal content to the Kids’ Something to Write
Home About — and an Afghan Whigs cover
too. But then the Kids parted ways, and in
of energetic rock songs, like the punky and
concise “Intelligent Design” and the end-
of-an-era signoff “Bad Liar.” Pryor’s an ex-
perienced singer-songwriter, and his boy-
ish, rough-around-the-edge voice is as
suited to the New Amsterdams’ more alt-
country songs as it is the self-conscious
heart-on-sleeve acoustic tracks. Story Like
a Scar is a more polished step forward for
Pryor and his bandmates, and one that car-
ries a sense of certainty. This is the band;
this is the life that comes after being a re-
luctant emo star, of sorts. The New
Amsterdams play with State Radio and
Street to Nowhere at 9 pm Wednesday,
March 7 at the WOW Hall. $10 adv., $12
door. — Molly Templeton
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