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WE 'HEART'... The Von Bondies
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Release Date: Mar 09, 2004; Lead Performance: The Von Bondies
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David Browne
David Browne is EW's music critic and author of ''Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley'' (HarperCollins)
The Von Bondies might be Detroit's latest great white garage-band hope, but their major-label debut, Pawn Shoppe Heart, shows they may be remembered as much for singer-guitarist Jason Stollsteimer's incident with Jack White as for their music. The splashy, throbbing clatter of their best moments -- ''Poison Ivy,'' ''C'mon C'mon,'' plus the way they spell out the title of ''The Fever'' in song -- has a rib-rattling force. Yet too often the group sounds like a sped-up version of the Cult (or, at times, the Doors), complete with Stollsteimer's stentorian, rock-god-am-I delivery. Like Stollsteimer and White, garage stomp and bombast should be kept at arm's length from each other.
Posted Mar 12, 2004
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