Dear Airborne Toxic Event: You are my badge of shame to wear, and I have come to accept this. Your lyrics are the most melodramatic and cliché confessionals this side of the Killers (what happens when you walk into a bar and see your ex with someone else? You look like youve seen a ghost!), your swelling string section is as emotionally manipulative as a Lifetime Network Movie, and I cant get enough of it. Just when I think Ive escaped your saccharine embrace, you go and cover Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus, the creepy theme song for Silence of the Lambs cross-dressing killer. Dont ever change. With The Calder Quartet. HANNAH LEVIN
Sat., Sept. 18, 8 p.m., 2010
