Matt Pond PA and Rocky Votolato, Saturday at RecordBar
Philadelphia-formed, Brooklyn-based Matt Pond PA is one of those acts that critics seem to love to bash. The band’s 2002 effort, The Green Fury, earned one of those strange, vindictive-seeming Pitchfork reviews — a 1.8, for sounding too much like a boring Adam Duritz record. That’s pretty funny, I guess, but it doesn’t really ring true to me. I don’t hear any vocal resemblance between Pond and Duritz. And in a live setting, the band isn’t boring.
