The Upper Crust

Dismiss Boston's Upper Crust as a joke rock band if you must, but give them this much: They're actually funny, and there's as much rock as mock to their singular brand of "roque." Moreover, you can see and hear elements of their shtick rock in a slew of bands that have come since, from the Darkness to Les Savy Fav. The gimmick -- a hedonistic band of foppish, powdered-wigged 18th-century aristocra...