{"id":33,"date":"2011-01-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:48:55","slug":"crazy-and-the-brainsthe-due-diligenceshivering-timbers-at-now-thats-class-cleveland-oh-1-13-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/01\/17\/crazy-and-the-brainsthe-due-diligenceshivering-timbers-at-now-thats-class-cleveland-oh-1-13-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy and the Brains\/The Due Diligence\/Shivering Timbers at Now That’s Class, Cleveland, OH, 1.13.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crazy and the Brains<\/b><\/p>\n

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Imagine: You’re in a chilly punk bar, the kind with band stickers all over the walls, along with a little graffiti, and bike quarter pipes along the back of the room. There’s four-piece punk band on stage whose line-up includes xylophone. The band starts up, and a crowd comes dancing in, some of whom look like they were shipped in from the suburbs. There is a conga line at one point.<\/p>\n

This was my cognitive dissonance-inducing introduction to not only Now That’s Class (a nice little venue with good acoustics and a laid-back vibe – easy to see why they received more than one nod in Scene’s most recent “best of” round-up), but also Crazy and the Brains. The audience, who had apparently been priming themselves at the bar for a while, was ready to dance, and CatB supplied just the right soundtrack with their bright, high-energy punk rock. While their originals, like “Birthday Song” and “Saturday Night Live”, were well-received, the most popular song of their set was a scream-along cover of “I Want Candy”.<\/p>\n

Here’s video of “Birthday Song”. Gotta say, the xylophone really works.<\/p>\n

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