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by Liza Weisstuch |
October 07, 2008
The late Henry Darger, painter, writer, hermit, and artsy perv, wrote about young sisters he called the Vivian Girls in his posthumously published 15,145-page epic The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. They suffered at the hands of brutes. The art-punk female trio from Brooklyn who perform as the Vivian Girls seem ready to kick some brute ass. But for all their hard-driving garage-rock sensibility, their songs are rounded out with the sugarcoated sparkle of 1960s girl bands and sweet, angelic harmonies that remind us of everything from Brit bands like Heavenly and Shop Assistants to the Pixies to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Unlike Darger, they keep it real. They’re at Great Scott (1222 Comm Ave, Boston, 617.566.9014) tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12; get them at www.ticketweb.com.
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