{"id":11616,"date":"2012-07-26T12:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T20:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2012-07-26T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T07:18:41","slug":"kevin-devine-plays-tonight-at-soho-in-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/kevin-devine-plays-tonight-at-soho-in-santa-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Devine Plays Tonight At Soho in Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Kevin Devine<\/strong><\/a> plays tonight at Soho<\/strong> in Santa Barbara<\/strong>.\u00a0 To get a feel for him, check out his recent winning cover of Pavement’s<\/strong> Summer Babe<\/strong><\/em> for the 405<\/strong><\/a> Summer Series<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can pick up tickets for the show at Club Mercy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Devine had this explanation as to why he chose this song for 405:<\/p>\n

“I saw Pavement with my first ever girlfriend at my second ever concert in the summer of 1995, outdoors, and they opened with this,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“There’s something about the looseness of this song, its slack nostalgia, that I associate with long, lazy summer days outside, with a girl, being charmed & charming.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The lyrics are, in Pavement style, pretty much inscrutable wordfun collage, but their, his; magic trick was the way he breaks from the winking to invest, through inflection, such feeling, yearning even, in certain phrases (“I’ll be waiting forever, I’m waiting (x8)…” & “I’ve got a lot of things I want to sell, but not here, babe – torture!”).<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s a truly lovely & lived-in memory, no Instagram filter required<\/em>.”<\/p>\n