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Live Music: 2010 Newport Folk Festival, Part One
George Wein started the Newport Folk Festival in 1959, and though economic difficulties caused the festival to close down in 1971, it was revived in 1985, and it’s been running continuously ever since. One
Read More »Live Music: Asia in Cleveland, Ohio, 8/13/10
The need for new material from Asia is a subject that on paper, is highly debatable in certain circles. But for those that have caught the reactivated ’80s rockers live in the past few
Read More »Live Music: XPoNential Music Festival, Part Two
To read Part One of my coverage of the 10th annual XPoNential Music Festival, please click here. If anything, the weather along the banks of the Delaware River in Camden, NJ for Sunday’s installment
Read More »Live Music: XPoNential Music Festival, Part One
It was a sweltering hot July weekend when beloved Philadelphia radio station WXPN brought the 10th annual XPoNential Music Festival across the river to Wiggins Park on the Camden, NJ waterfront. Not even the
Read More »Live Music: 2010 Non-CommVention in Philadelphia
Non-Comm is the annual Triple A radio conference hosted by WXPN in Philadelphia, and held at that city’s wonderful venue, World Cafe Live. The conference draws radio programmers from all over the country for
Read More »Live Music: Blue Rodeo @ Martyrs’ in Chicago, 6/12/10
Closing out the first leg of their latest U.S. tour, criminally underappreciated Canadian favorites Blue Rodeo spent Saturday night in Chicago with a surprisingly deep (and, at times, obscure) set list, digging out tracks
Read More »Live Music: Wilco at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, N.J., 4/2/10
The venerable Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey, began life as a legitimate theatre in 1922 before being converted to a movie theatre in 1929. The venue fell on hard times in recent years,
Read More »Live Music: Wild Beasts @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, 2/28/10
When Wild Beasts came to New York City last fall, they found themselves in the pressured position of having a lot to prove. They’d made only one US trek beforehand, to SXSW. Members of
Read More »Live Music: Murder City Devils @ Nokia Theater, 2/13/10
Murder City Devils are no longer the kind of band that sets their drums on fire, or plays dive bars. For quite some time they were technically no longer even a band. But for
Read More »Live Music: Yeasayer @ Bowery Ballroom, 2/8/10, and Music Hall of Williamsburg, 2/9/10
Alternately titled: How I got in to Two Sold Out Yeasayer Shows in New York City, A Tale of Happiness & Triumph One of the biggest challenges a music writer can face is writing
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