On Tuesday night I saw The New Year play an excellent set at DC9. As usual, my photos and review can be found at DCist. If you think that these dudes have a lot of guitars on their records, you should see them live—at one point during the show, all five members of the band (one of which was Centro-matic’s Will Johnson) were playing guitars. It reminded me of a line I recall reading in a Buddyhead review of the first Death Cab For Cutie record about ten years ago: more clean guitars than a Guitar Center showroom.
