Confetti, sock puppets and toe-tapping music made Sunday's "They Might Be Giants" shows a gigantic success.
They Might Be Giants, which performed two all-ages shows at The Community Theatre Sunday, Oct. 16, at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., has always had a special place in my heart. It began when my college neighbor said, "Check this out," and played the band's hit single "Birdhouse in Your Soul" on her hulking stereo. The sound was at once foreign and yet somehow embodied the spirit of what it meant to be young and carefree on a Friday afternoon in the spring of 1990. My interest in the band deepened as my cousins and I danced around our grandparents' sun porch to the infectious, albeit cryptic, MTV video for "Ana Ng," from the album "Lincoln"; the only time we took a break from fighting over who got to hold their cable remote, which was larger than …
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Alternative rock legends will play two family shows at The Community Theatre this weekend.
Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants will play two all-ages shows at The Community Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 17, at 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. The once-upon-a-time adults-oriented band, famous for the hit single "Birdhouse in Your Soul," which pulsated through college dormitories in the early '90s, turned its talents toward the tiniest music lovers–children–in 2002 and found a fervent following. Their song "Boss of Me," the theme from the television show "Malcolm in the Middle," won the band its first Grammy award in 2001. TMBG's 13th album, the second in their "Here Come ..." series, "Here Come the 123's," also won a Grammy for "Best Musical Album for Children" in 2009. They quickly followed up that success with "Here Comes…
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Sam
8:42 pm on Tuesday, October 19, 2010
I really wish they would have turned down the volume. My son wanted to leave right away because it was too loud. Then the staff offered him ear plugs ... sweet, but really, is any four year old going to use ear plugs? more ›