Article: Big serving Lambchop is a big band with a soft sound.(Time Out!)

The scoop

- What: Yo La Tengo with Lambchop

- Where: Metro, 3730 N. Clark

- When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday

- Tickets: $15. Call (312) 559-1212

It's not out of the ordinary for a band to consider itself a family. With typically four members, a band lives and travels together and there's usually a hierarchy, too: the leader, his or her harmony partner and the two rhythm players who are just happy to be called for dinner.

If this is family, then Lambchop is a clan. At times there have been 15 members in the collective, giving their live shows the feel of a family reunion. But there's a method to this madness. Lambchop plays ...

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