Thursday night I caught the the Deli SF and KALX-presented Or, the Whale (myspace) and Pete and J (myspace) show at the the Independent.

Pete and J were first up after I got there. They had their own section of the crowd which was pretty appreciative. They did a fun set of pop songs that reminded me at times of Ben Folds, Guster and Simon & Garfunkel. I can imagine their sound would appeal a lot to the college crowd.

A highlight of their set was when they brought on Lindsay, Julie, Tim and Matt from Or, the Whale to do a nice cover of my favorite Gillian Welch song, “Look at Miss Ohio”.

It’s gotten to the point where I just assume Or, the Whale will put on a great show. My assumption wasn’t wrong. They put a lot of energy into the show. The sound was great and they pulled off the slow songs as well as they did played the crowd-rousers.

Set list (according to the band’s written set list–quotes indicating what’s written on the set list when corresponding song name can’t be figured out):

• Rusty
• Rabbit
• Life & Death
• “W.J”
• Crack a Smile
• Givin’ Up Time
• Bound to go Home
• Gonna Have To
• “T.P.”
• Shasta
• “N.L.B.”
• Call and Response

—encore—

• Rope Don’t Break
• Fight Song

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