The Go! Team is about as self-reflective as a group name gets. Thunder, Lightning, Strike seems to be structured as an homage to the last 20 years of music. The group fuses electronica, hip-hop and even rock. Blend all that with a letterman’s jacket, smiles and pom-poms, and boom: The Go! Team. Top it off with a marching band led by a tenacious group of cheerleaders chanting, clapping and stomping from the fresh grass of the South up to the concrete jungles of the North. It’s a fusion of devilishly loud instruments, Apollonian strings, and rugged break-beats splashing and mixing into one another with the same tenacity as Pollock’s brush. Who needs dirty late-night critics and analysis charts when you have musicians like The Go! Team? So just drop your books, lose the oversized sunglasses and bask in the innocent sunshine of delight.
The Go! Team will perform at the Casbah Oct. 19.
