"The Blacks, an NYC-San Francisco based indie group, played a short set at the trendy Club Harlot in San Francisco's SOMA on November 5th, and basically rocked. All three players are gifted instrumentalists; they make the most of what they bring, and the result is gritty, bare-bones rock, comprehensible and appealing at a gut-level...So much indie music focuses so hard on being different and weird; and The Blacks certainly are that. But their weirdness isn't a forced attempt at uniqueness or non-conformity made to the detriment of their music (too often the case with garage-band types), but an artistic expression of what they know they can do."

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