Rainer Maria "Bottle" from Catastrophe Keeps Us Together Live at Club 770 Madison, WI Mar 24, 2006 PODCAST EXCLUSIVE!

The marquee attraction of MadisonFest -- and a pretty good "get" for free event like this one -- was Rainer Maria, formerly of Madison themselves but currently trying to make it big in New York. They've been hard at work on their fifth full-length for about three years and it hits stores tomorrow. The songs are a little cleaner and the songs less pock-marked than their older material; some of it is great, some is not. This song feels like an ambition that didn't quite get all the way done; it's different for them but not quite a fully working Big Piece Of Guitar Pop. It's more successful in a live setting, especially as an early-in-the-set energy-builder.