Saintseneca: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
One of the many instruments you may hear Saintseneca play beyond the banjo, baglama, bulbul, balalaika, bowed banjo, baritone ukulele, bass and bouzouki is a stomp box. Basically, it s a roughly 2 x2 plywood floorboard meant for pounding the beat. At a show just before this Tiny Desk Concert, craftily bearded singer Zac Little put his boot right through that had its beginnings in the heart of a small Appalachian town in Ohio, and the band grew up at college in Columbus. This year s Dark Arc is a pastiche of gentle lyrical moments and punk anthems, often within the same tune and often with that aforementioned stomp, straight from a small wooden Saintseneca left the Tiny Desk, I pointed the band to a hardware store to replace its broken floorboard only to get a note a while later telling me that the new board had been destroyed within weeks. Here s a good sampling of what the group does best, though you should be sure to see Saintseneca in concert, where its fierceness
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