Category archive for ‘Live Review’
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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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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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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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Creators Project – Justice, Karen O, Florence and The Machines, and More
Situated next to the East River down under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) normally boasts a European atmosphere with lingering patrons in cafes, coffee shops and bars speckled with affianced couples getting their photos snapped on its cobble stoned streets. However, this past weekend at The Creators Project those streets were sectioned off for the elite hipster crowd [...]
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Treasure Island Review: Day 1
First impressions: Treasure Island curates quality songwriters. With such limited space on the two-stage, staggered lineup, there wasn’t room in the day for a band to make it in on a fluke or buzz alone. Even the stuff that didn’t court my taste was solidly written, and as a result, no stage was a fanless island (ha, ha!). [...]
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Foster the People, Cults, and Reptar at The Fillmore [Photos and Live Review]
Foster the People and Cults, two of indie pop’s hottest acts, played back-to-back performances at the Fillmore this past Thursday and Friday. Foster the People headlined as their “Pumped Up Kids” remains steadily atop of the Billboard Charts at #3. In the wake up a dismal performance with Kenny G on the Saturday Night Live, the Hanson-esque pop [...]
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BRAIDS and Pepper Rabbit @ Bottom of The Hill
It had been a few months since I had seen a show at Bottom of the Hill, so I was looking forward to heading out to the dark, but always-great sounding venue. Having only heard Native Speaker, the Montreal-based BRAIDS’ debut full length a few times, I went to the Bottom of The Hill with a mixed set [...]
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