Er, it's hard to get a taste w/o buying an album. Their stuff's not prevalent on P2P networks, amazingly.

I got my start with 'em by working at Cold Stone, home of the bitchinest mixtape of any major ice cream chain. "At Sea" came on and I went nuts hearing it for the first time. I kept thinking about it, wishing I'd looked at the little LCD on the stereo to get the name of the group and the song. Three fitful weeks later, it played again and this time I caught it. I bought Paint The Town, the 2004 album with that song on it, and while the album lags here and there I wasn't disappointed in the least.
The Push Stars are a three-man getup out of Boston that dates back to the late '90s and sounds like a more optimistic Wallflowers, but about half as esoteric, closer to the groove. Chris Trapper, their front man, knows his stuff, even when he throws in the occasional swervy line like "So she went to the bar on the corner/with some friends who were buried alive." One could make a case that the lyrics are half free-association white-boy blabber on some songs.
Still, all their cuts, no matter the content, are just plain fun to sit around and listen to, like The Beatles. (Yep, those Beatles.) The Push Stars' rock spectrum runs from strummy guitar ditties like "Ocean View" and "Keg On My Coffin" to pulsing, powerfully arranged anthems like "At Sea" and "Cinderella" and over to head-bumpin' jangly tracks like "Any Little Town" and "One Summer Day."

http://endor.org/pushstars/ has some of their song clips in Real Audio.

-- Edited by Ol Death Whisper at 17:42, 2006-05-20