The Record Crate: Keeping Things Interesting

I went into seeing Hi-Five with high hopes. I always want a local band to come out of the woodwork and do something really exciting, and on their recent self-titled disc, the trio does exactly that. The singing sounds impassioned, the groves are infectious, it rocks just hard enough while sounding like they wrote these songs on purpose -- I start to feel like a lot of bands like to get their band-as-concept down and the songs are created as an afterthought. Read more...