Category archive for ‘Reviews’
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Deleted Scenes and A Lull at Rickshaw Stop [Photo Review]
Deleted Scenes dropped by the Rickshaw Stop, sharing the stage with A Lull and Ravenna Wood. Although the woeful 49ers loss may have kept a few extra people from braving the fifth stormy night in as many days, the group played a motivated and energetic set, much to the pleasure of the attending patrons. Fresh off of their September [...]
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Gary Bartz Experiment ft. Aloe Blacc and Bilal [Live Review]
Does folk derive from blues? Is hip hop rooted in jazz? They say blues is an off shoot of jazz, and jazz draws from classical music, so is blues a form of classical? No matter how you look at it there’s something special about hearing the different music worlds come together. This last Wednesday, we got to do [...]
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Amy Winehouse: Lioness, Hidden Treasures [Album Review]
When “Rehab” made Amy Winehouse American famous (you know as opposed to the rest of the world, which doesn’t really count) I wrote her off as bad pop. As a bandwagoneer, I was compelled to listen to her music when she died and joined the “27 club” this July. How pathetic that she had to die to earn [...]
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The Weakerthans “Four & More” Tour 2011 @ The Independent [Live Review]
Billed as the “Four & More” tour, Winnipeg’s The Weakerthans set up residency at the Independent for a sold-out four-night stretch of dates, each a celebration of a different full length from their modestly-sized but venerable discography. The album show, if it is common enough to be known as such, is a peculiar kind of palimpsest. Original, recorded [...]
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B.o.B. “EPIC: Every Play Is Crucial” [Album Review]
B.o.B ( aka Bobby Ray) released yesterday his mixtape, EPIC: Every Play Is Crucial, in anticipation for his upcoming album in March. I’ve only had the chance to listen to a few tracks, but it sounds stronger than his previous mixtape (read our review of B.o.B. No Genre). Whereas No Genre showed the polarizing styles (pop vs. aggressive [...]
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Feist at The Warfield [Live Review]
Leslie Feist’s performance at The Warfield changed me. I had slighted the petite singer, known for her bubbly song “1,2,3,4” (featured on an iPod Nano commercial and later on Sesame Street), as a pop star lacking depth. Her 2004 breakout album, Let It Die, was a masterpiece of sweet, bright folk, with catchy hooks like on “Gatekeeper.” But [...]
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Yelle at Mezzanine [Live Review and Photos]
Julie Budet is riveting. After her first few English words, spoken with a delightfully distorted accent, one can quickly hear she’s French. Likely few members of the audience understood her lyrics, yet she draws everyone in with a few on-stage antics and a massive dose of enthusiasm. Always moving, if she wasn’t singing, she was dancing, and [...]
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Real Estate at Slim’s 11/11/11
Last Friday Real Estate returned to a packed Slim’s. Two weeks after opening for Deerhunter, now headliners, the group brought a huge crowd. Considering that their latest album, Days, was released only a month ago, and that this was their second performance in two weeks–the “band to watch” label Stereogum recently gave adorn them with is undoubtedly true. [...]
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Immortal Technique “The Martyr” [ALBUM REVIEW]
If you aren’t familiar with Harlem, NY based Immortal Technique, it is likely because he has never signed to a major label and his following has been personally cultivated through independent album sales. Following Revolutionary Volumes 1 and 2 and the Third World, Tech released The Martyr for free online October 27. It has already been downloaded almost [...]
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Feist “Metals” [Album Review]
When Feist first came on the scene in 2004 with Let It Die featuring the adorable video for “Mushaboom,” I was enraptured. I proverbially wore down the Mp3s in my colorless-screened first generation iPod. The balance of soul, femininity and melody was like an optimistic Cat Power with the same swirling soundtrack riffs characteristic of Broken Social [...]
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