The Hold Steady Test Their Hometown Fans at ShowFor a bit, it was business as usual: Finn herking and jerking as the band churned behind him, shuffling his feet like he was building up static energy, doing those dainty little one-eighth claps.
Unexpectedly, Tortoise Rocks Webster HallToward the end of last night’s Tortoise show at Webster Hall, what had been an adventurous, enervating night of instrumental math-rock turned unexpectedly into a heavy-metal rock-a-thon.