Ted Leo has toured the country so many times in the three years since he last released a new album that it felt almost strange to see him play at Washington’s 9:30 Club recently with an actual product to promote. Last month’s The Brutalist Bricks is the New Jersey-based singer-songwriter’s first album to crack the Billboard 200, and though Leo still puts on the same kind of stripped-down rock’n'roll show he and his Pharmacists band have for nearly a decade, there was one small, goofy indulgence of showmanship: four large fake bees, vaguely modeled after the Brutalist’s cover art, hung above and around the stage.
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