The_First_Times
Seattle, WA
Biography
Yearning for the days when power pop was earnest and innocent, with just the right amount of sugary-sweet lyrics that read like a love letter to a teenage crush? Seattle's the First Times can help you out. On their recent self-titled debut album, they pack their songs with Rickenbacker riffs and slick mod-pop hooks in an evocative style that's somewhere between Nick Lowe's classic ripper Jesus of Cool and the Jam's In the City. The band sounds like a late-'70s Creem-magazine-approved band on ...
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