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Article: White Rabbits Go Down The Hole at the Black Cat
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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Presumably, a band featuring two drummers knows a thing or two
about rhythm, or, at the very least, enjoys occasionally whacking
its audience in the solar plexus. Brooklyn-via-Columbia, Mo., sextet
White Rabbits employed a pair of drummers at the Black Cat on
Thursday night, but they merely feigned an emphasis on rhythm. That
was fitting, however, since the band's 50-minute set also featured
fake calypso and ska. The Rabbits sounded like a group of genuinely
mediocre frat-rockers, working a sound so uninspired that only the
fog of a multiple kegger would make them seem interesting.
Rabbits tunes like "Navy Wives," "While We Go Dancing" and "Fort ...