THE BEAT GOES ON

NEW YORK—Memory without nostalgia. Love without idealism. Fun without escaping. The dB’s are pop with care. The dB’s come from. North Carolina, have been playing together for over a decade in various forms, formed the band in New York two and a half years ago, released their debut album Stands For deciBles on the English Albion Records this year, have just toured Europe, are having their follow-up platter produced by Roger Bechirian, are not a very good live band, sometimes sound like the Beatles and the Beach Boys and the Hollies, smile a lot, understand politics and don’t like it, do covers of “Everlasting Love” and “Tomorrow Never Knows,” know how to write melodies, are just a pop group like any other.