SCN CoHo Series Presents: the Carolines

Stanford Concert Network and the CoHo present the Carolines as part of their weekly CoHo series, every Thursday night.

"From the suburban wilds outside Portland come the Carolines, whose slightly fey, oddly muscular pop feels young and inspired, like a bunch of not-quite-kids-anymore who are still motivated by the rock 'n' roll dream but who don't feel the need to dress it up in tough-guy poses. The Carolines are about words, melodies, and musical interdependence, and while they may not melt your butter quite yet, they seem to have that ineffable whatever that makes basement bands stick around long enough to move upstairs. What a strained, shitty metaphor. Good band, though. Sorry." (Sean Nelson, Sit & Spin)

"We're not trying to prove anything," rhythm guitar player and songwriter Nate Purscelley admits, "We just literally want to make fun music that we like to listen to." In a music scene often plagued by pretention, the Carolines canýt get any more refreshing. Their latest album, "Youth Electronics," is loaded with catchy hooks, melodies and earnest-as-hell lyrics about love, unrequited and otherwise. Standard stuff, but so well done and often so clever that it's hard not to like. It's pop-rock 1970s style, with brains and feeling. Brilliant.