The Fifth of July ’ Watershed (Idol): On Watershed’s new album, The Fifth of July, the band has mastered a craft - the craft of creating so-catchy-it should-be-illegal power pop. The Fifth of July is the Kinks with muscle, the Ramones with better voices and Green Day with bigger brains. Like a four-headed Hemingway with musical instruments rather than writing tools, singer guitarist Colin Gawel, bassist Joe Oestreich, drummer Dave Massica and guitarist Mark Booror get in, get out and leave permanent marks in the listener’s memory banks. An epic song length for the Columbus band is 3:46, and epics are the exceptions. The first three songs - Obvious, The Habit and The Fifth of July - clock in at a combined 6:52. But Watershed says more poignant things about neverending summers, dead-end jobs and drinks to go to sleep and to wake up than a more longwinded outfit ever would. - Aaron Beck abeck@dispatch.com
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COLIN [League Bowlers]
POOCHIE [Twin Cam]
JOE
