Blog: Consequence Of Sound

"Last night I played 'My Sharona' for 55 minutes and the audience didn't care for it, which is weird since they requested it," Bradford Cox explained to the sold-out crowd at Chicago's Lincoln Hall on Saturday night. After hammering out a full hour set, the lone, gaunt songwriter swigged at his third (or fourth?) Pacifico, enjoying the balmy rapport with his audience, facetiously adding: "Whatever happens after this is up to me. I punched the clock already." After witnessing Cox perform live as Atlas Sound , it's easy to understand how he develops songs without actually writing [...]