Slender Gems, Lunch Lady and Spwedway Sleeper

Slender Gems is a Portland quartet. Equally influenced by the big, opened-tuned chords of 90s slacker-rock and the elegant shredding of 70s AOR, by rights they should be playing out of Marshall stacks to the beer swilling legions. But the righteous end of virtuosity is something more ancient and sacred than the postwar excesses of the United States: it is the ability to stir something in the human soul, to gesture at something great and ineluctable in our shared consciousness, and salute it. The confluence of LeVeque’s acerbic wit, the might of the rhythm section, and white-hot, dueling/twin guitar leads will delight all those who think and feel... and perhaps stir something long dormant in their beleaguered hearts.