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Story and photos by Matt Schwenke In an effort to offer up a less than typical concert before the holidays and in hopes of a having a sold-out performance like last year's, which featured My Chemical Romance as the headliner, FM 102.1's Big Snow Show at the Riverside Theatre fell a bit short of its implied grandeur with modestly entertaining and all too brief performances by headliners Jimmy Eat World and supporting acts Coheed & Cambria and Shiny Toy Guns, as well as a much less than full house.While L.A.-based indie rockers Shiny Toy Guns have been gaining a reputation for having to be pulled away from the stage, the band turned in the most energetic and entertaining performance of the evening but had only begun to get the crowd going with their hit "Le Disco" before they promptly handed the stage over to New York-based progressive rockers Coheed and Cambria. As a potent duo on guitar, frontman and guitarist Claudio Sanchez and lead guitarist Travis Stever cranked out generally heavy riffs with Sanchez' high-register shriek emerging from underneath his trademark head of hair and with bass, drums and keys supporting. But while the show mainly culled from heavier material, the band was at it's best in stirring up Pink Floyd-esque atmospherics, especially in "The Final Cut," which featured dueling solos between Stever with talk box and Sanchez with guitar behind his head and later plucking the guitar with his teeth. But, like the act before them, Sanchez and Stever made an early exit just as the crowd began to get riled up, leaving the rest of the band playing on for a few minutes until finally awkwardly ending their set with a longwinded solo from drummer Chris Pennie. Enter Jimmy Eat World. While the Arizona-based alternative rockers started strong with the infectiously driving "Big Casino," from their new album Chase This Light, the intensity faded as the band seemed to be going through the motions in pulling from their six-album-deep catalog, and capped off a night of performances that were more like a series of small flurries than a blizzard of sound. |
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