Keith Shackleton on March 5th, 2010

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Wearing badges is not enough for Ted Leo. A committed live performer, treading the boards for more than a decade  now with his dynamic brand of agit-pop, Leo has a new release “The Brutalist Bricks” coming out on Tuesday on Matador, and the album, his sixth, packs a familiar one-two punch – brash new wave hook, apposite lyric. Glenn Tilbrook with attitude.

||| Download: “Even Heroes Have To Die” and “The Mighty Sparrow”

||| Live: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists perform March 27 at the Troubadour.

||| Watch: Ted Leo perform “The Mighty Sparrow.”

– By Keith Shackleton

Photo by Shawn Brackbill