Cracker News: Cracker with Camper Van Beethoven - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Sunday, January 16, 2011

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Over the last half decade or so, an increasing amount of bands have played the gambit of digging back through their discography to play an LP in its entirety, so much so that it’s become as a de facto move for bands as for chess players using the Ruy Lopez opening. DAVID LOWERY is ahead of most of the competition in that he’s got the luxury of playing favorites with two still-functioning bands, the Santa Cruz-spawned CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN (a band that launched a thousand ‘quirky’ references in record reviews) as well as the post-CVB band CRACKER. And since both...