This pop-punk trio is the first band I ever interviewed for this
paper, back when they were releasing a little three-song EP called
Again & Again & Again in 2005. It was impossibly fresh and infectious,
making you want to play it . . . well, you know. Since then, it’s been
fun to watch them blast off, from playing to adoring crowds at
Bumbershoot, to winning a certain local contest for up-and-coming
bands in 2006, to covering Jawbreaker on their second EP, to having
their debut full-lengthreleased tonight!produced by the king of this
genre, Jawbox’s J Robbins. Call It Off does not sound like “Nirvana
and the Posies having a battle of the bands inside your stereo,” as
the P-I has writtenit’s a hyped-up Braid, a more fun Q and Not U, a
more serious Dead Milkmen, an off-the-rails pop romance as unique as
the three Seattle kids who made it. With the Lonely Forest and Hungry
Pines. RACHEL SHIMP
Listen to a sample of Speaker Speaker’s “Call It Off.”
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Sat., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., 2008
