Lucero

FUN FUN FUN FEST

• Preview

  The blurbing of Fun Fun Fun Fest

• Saturday

• Sunday

• Interviews

• Death

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Altercation Comedy

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Fucked Up

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• The Jesus Lizard

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Pharcyde

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Pack of Wolves

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Mission of Burma

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• GZA

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Danzig

  BY MARC SAVLOV

Fun Fun Fun Fest Phases

• The Jesus Lizard

  Head/Pure

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Mission of Burma

  The Sound the Speed the Light

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Times New Viking

  Born Again Revisited

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Why?

  Eskimo Snow

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Broadcast & the Focus Group

  Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• The King Khan & BBQ Show

  Invisible Girl

  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

• Lucero

  1372 Overton Park

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Russian Circles

  Geneva

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

Lucero

Lucero may never outgrow Bruce Springsteen, and, in fact, for the Memphis quartet's sixth studio effort and major label debut, it takes the Boss head on. Retaining its hard-driving grit of ornery guitars pummeling behind Ben Nichols' serrated, whiskey-and-cigarette growl, 1372 Overton Park folds in aggressive horn arrangements that pay tribute to both the band's hometown R&B heritage and classic E Street Band. Between the disillusioned, "Born to Run" update of opener "Smoke," the brass swagger of "What Are You Willing to Lose," and fervent stomp of "The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo," Lucero infuses its ragged rage with an effusive energy while hedging Southern rock ferocity ("Sixes and Sevens," "Johnny Davis") with caustic ballads ("Goodbye Again," "Darken My Door"). Nichols still pleads brilliantly for outcasts and losers, and Overton is impressively tight, polished, and raw for a decade-old band. (Sunday, 5:40pm, Orange Stage.)