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That’s right, the honorable Phineas J. Whoopie has officially
retired from lecturing Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley the Walrus to
pursue a career in music. For those of you not up on obscure cartoon
characters from the 1960s, Phineas is the bespectacled professor who
would help out Underdog and his friends whenever they got into a jam.
Now he’s donated his name to a Fort Lauderdale-based indie-rock band
fronted by Jose Martinez. The group’s first CD, Poetry Clown,
came out way back in 1998, but the band has continued at a slow and
steady pace ever since. PJW sounds a bit like an upbeat combination of
Toad the Wet Sprocket and the Stone Roses coming down off a massive
sugar high. This Saturday’s show celebrates the release of the band’s
fourth album, Down the Rails.
