Aw, Nuts || August 3, 2007

Two unfortunate announcements this week. First up, as our good friend Noah W. Bailey pointed out on Wednesday, the singular country efforts of Current Leaves are no more. Well, not under that name, anyway--Aaron White's announcement ends with this optimistic foreshadowing: "don't think any of us are done playing and making music in public...and there is still a forthcoming album..."

Hey, if White needs to drop the band name as a kickstart, so be it. When CL's Pastense was released, a lot of the local music scene was barely aware, as the band just didn't push in terms of promotion and harder gigging. Which doesn't make the music any worse, certainly, but bands and inertia aren't usually a positive combination.

Sarah Reddington, meanwhile, isn't done, but the band members are packing their bags and zipping off to Portland. S'pose that's good news for me, as I'll be able to drive to their gigs in the PacNW, but if their promising noisy-pop sucked you in during their relatively short Denton tenure, give thanks at their farewell show at Rubber Gloves on Wednesday, August 15th. -SM