Girls
Great American Music Hall
Girls perform with Smith Westerns, who will please T. Rex fans, and local queer pop idols Hunx and the Punkettes on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 8:30 p.m., advance tickets sold out; 885-0750 or www.gamh.com.
Girls, the biggest S.F. indie band to blow up last year, are hyped for good reason. The band's jangly, sun-faded pop songs, which shine from the yearning soul of singer-songwriter Christopher Owens, pluck heartstrings as they please eardrums. His voice sounds like a smoked-out Elvis Costello, but Girls' familiar reverb-rock owes as much to the Beach Boys. Owens' frank lyrics confess depths of anguish: Few could get away with chirping, "It isn't right to sit around/and think about the awful things that get you down" without coming off like Tony Robbins, but when he does, you have to agree.
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