SATURDAY: Sam Roberts Band @ World Café Live at the Queen, 5/21

Sam Roberts' website doesn't list any Philly-area dates on their current tour, but if you look closely at WXPN.org, you'll see that they're doing a Saturday double header at World Café Live at the Queen in Wilmington, with The Jayhawks.

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SATURDAY: Sam Roberts Band @ World Café Live at the Queen, 5/21

POSTED: Friday, May 20, 2011, 2:00 PM

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Sam Roberts' website doesn't list any Philly-area dates on their current tour, but if you look closely at WXPN.org, you'll see that they're doing a Saturday double header at World Café Live at the Queen in Wilmington, with The Jayhawks.

Their new album, Collider, was released on May 10 and features what Roberts calls "less frenetic rock, and more of a rhythm, groove-oriented album." The band, which has previously been about as straightforward rock as you can ask for, adds some woodwinds (by Antibalas' Stuart D. Bogie), a bit of female backup vox, and more syncopation dynamics than they've used previously.

It's hard to say their song writing has matured without dissing their outstanding previous body of work. But Roberts has his third child on the way, and has admitted to writing with more gravity as of late.

They're usually good for a stop at the North Star Bar (possibly in tribute to Roberts' former band with George Donoso of The Dears called North Star), but unfortunately SRB doesn't have Philly on their radar this time around. It looks like the best we're going to get is the short free-at-noon set in Wilmington, and then hope for a big indie act to bring them through as an opening band (in the past, they've played Philly opening for The Tragically Hip and Ben Kweller).

To RSVP for the show in Wilmington, visit WXPN

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