FREE ENERGY at Horseshoe Tavern. Thursday June 17. myspace.com/freeenergymusic Rating: NNNN
We’ve come to associate James Murphy and his DFA record label with intellectual rock melded with avant-garde electronica. Philadelphia’s Free Energy, DFA’s newest signee whose debut (Stuck on Nothing) was produced by Murphy, are anything but.
They’re five easy-going dudes wearing drug rugs and feathers on their guitars, playing good time Southern-tinged rock.
After an unenviable early evening slot at Dundas Square the same day, the band looked to be relishing their club confines and the crowd was giving back as good as they received.
