Video: The Smith Westerns 'Be My Girl' @ Pitchfork stage Primavera 2010

The Smith Westerns show it is possible to pull off garage-style glam rock, and then some. They are a young (aged between 18 and 20) male quartet unimaginatively attired in emasculating jeans and floppy haircuts, and they write songs that tell the world the trauma of pre-adulthood is the opposite sex. So far, big yawn. But before we go ahead and dismiss Smith Westerns as just another wet-between-the-ears group of poseurs trying the college pub circuit on for size, we may want to consider the bright future that beholds them. The...