Don’t be fooled by the names — even though it sounds like we’re pulling your leg here. Drummer and The Guitars are two separate full bands featuring all the major Rock instruments, including bass, vocals and keyboards. From Akron, drummer is a certified genre-spanning Ohio supergroup. Featuring former/current members of The Black Keys, Harriet the Spy (and Party of Helicopters), Beaten Awake and local brethren Ghostman Sandman, the resulting Post-Math-Rock Power-Pop sounds like a fresh, accessible composite of these gentlemen’s respective disparate backgrounds. The Guitars, a new band on the Cincinnati scene with an obvious flair for New Pornographer-ish organs ’n harmonies, classic up-tempo FM Pop and surfy riffage, has already got “Overnight Indie Pop Success” written all over them. Their Dan-Auerbach-produced 7-inch single is due out sometime this summer. Drummer and The Guitars storm the Northside Tavern for a free show on Sunday at 9 p.m. Catch ’em before everybody else knows who they are.
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2009.