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An Evening with Lyla Garrity: Explosions in the Sky @ The Wiltern
Explosions in the Sky is possibly my favorite band in the world right now. The first song of theirs that I ever heard was “Your Hand in Mine,” which I discovered on an archived
Read More »A Dozen Seasons: Richard Julian @ Genghis Cohen
My evening on Friday seemed to consist mainly of mild swings of fortune. Two years in LA have taught me to lunge at empty parking spaces, so I was feeling fortunate when I spotted
Read More »Enablers @ Knitting Factory, Sunday, March 9th
San Francisco’s Enablers are more an amalgam of music and poetry than the average band. This distinction is forged primarily through the use of speech only loosely set in pattern with the music instead
Read More »Clapton and Winwood @ Madison Square Garden, NYC: 2/26/08
Eric Clapton – guitar, vocals Steve Winwood – Hammond organ, guitar, vocals Chris Stainton – keyboards Willie Weeks – bass Ian Thomas – drums I’m convinced that any great concert experience requires an interesting
Read More »The Blackest Night: Willoughby @ Tangiers
The last time I went to Tangiers, almost two years ago, it was a bit of a disaster. A few weeks before at my first Beverly Hills party, filled primarily with public defenders, the
Read More »Joanna Newsom @ BAM, Thursday, Jan. 31st
A Joanna Newsom album has never sounded as good as she did when she played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Thursday. Even the most middling of fans, the most ardent of critics,
Read More »Silvery Citybank Lights: St. Vincent and The National @ the Wiltern
Here’s a brain teaser: Most days, my commute to my downtown day job consists of a bumpy bus ride straight down Olympic. When I have a good book to read, however, I’ll get off
Read More »The Sweat Descends: Les Savy Fav @ the El Rey
My friend Solly came down last weekend on a miniature vacation from Seattle. She was unlucky enough to have the rain follow her down and catch up to her by Monday, but the weekend
Read More »Handel’s Messiah @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
This is a pretty vast digression from the concerts I’m normally going to review here. For one thing, I don’t normally patronize “the arts.” For another, the bands I see are normally “on tour”
Read More »New Anthems to Breathe: Matt Nathanson @ The Troubadour
Before heading over to the Troubadour for the Matt Nathanson show I took my girlfriend out for an “appreciation night” to thank her for enduring some horrendous traffic the previous Friday to pick me
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