The Don’ts & Be Carefuls

“…The Don’ts and Be Carefuls seem to be of a similar artistic outlook as their scenemates Lil’ Slugger: be wildly original and weird yet accessible. They were a 4-piece band with the usual rock instruments and a synth player. They also had these 2 cute dancer girls who looked like they just got out of avant garde ballet class off to stage left moving to their music. It was sort of a noisy, danceable post-punk thing with low-end synth to bolster the presence of the songs. They reminded me only a little bit of old Modest Mouse but that may have just been the singer’s vocals because their music was a lot more sharp-edged than that. Before their last song, the lead singer said “We don’t deserve this, this is our third show,” to acknowledge the fact that they were on such a high profile bill. But when you have a band as good and as interesting as these guys, such modesty will soon be unnecessary.” – Tom Murphy, Westword