Imperial Teen @ The Casbah.

After about a five year hiatus, Imperial Teen returned to the Casbah on Dec 15th, 2007. Their new album, The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band, is maybe not as dancey as 2002's On, but is the same brand of very underrated power pop/rock that lies somewhere between Belle and Sebastian and the Rentals or Weezer. Beautiful harmonies, delicate melodies, and fuzzy rock-out-without-trying choruses. They're all getting a little older (Roddy's 45), but they are still at it. Roddy and Will are still very hip gay dudes, they were both very sharply dressed. They played stuff from all four albums. Drummer, Lynn Truell, sang lead on a new song "Shim Sham" and gave up percussive duties to Roddy to play bass on a couple of songs during the encore. The place wasn't empty, but it was far from packed, which was actually quite a treat. Everyone there was a very enthusiastic fan, with lots of dancing room. Guitarist Roddy Bottum (former Faith No More Keyboardist) kind of looks like the guy from UCB, Ian Roberts, I think.