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Dismemberment Plan



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It truly is better to burnout than to fade away. Take the sad old ogres that lurk behind the face paint in Kiss, or how ridiculous Mick Jagger looks shaking his wrinkled can to the cha-ching of hundred-dollar ticket sales. After three records of twitchy, funk-punk (way before New York dolls like Radio 4) and bipolar indie rock, the Dismemberment Plan hit its creative peak in 2001 on the mesmerizing Change (DeSoto). The precedent set by the record is one frontman Travis Morrison feels the band could never replicate. "That's the energy that it's got to end with," he says. "You've got to respect that. We are not interested in making solo records and coming back in a year. We aren't interested in keeping it alive any longer than we absolutely want to be doing it." And so, after a decade together, the Dismemberment Plan is disbanding, with its last hurrah being this farewell tour and the posthumous remix record, The People's History of the Dismemberment Plan (DeSoto), due out Sept. 22. Mourn, but do not shed a tear, for the best is yet to come.

Sat., July 26, 9 p.m., $12-$14, with Engine Down and Miss Spice & the Malenium Band, The TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011.

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