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Live Music: U2, Foxborough, Mass., 9/20/09

Ken Shane September 21, 2009 11

We’ve got old songs We’ve got new songs We’ve got songs we can’t play We’ve got a spaceship But we won’t leave without you With those words, Bono and his friends in U2 launched

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Live Music: The Black Crowes at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, 9/5/09

Ken Shane September 10, 2009 4
Asbury Park’s storied Stone Pony isn’t the same since Live Nation took over. That cuts both ways. On the plus side, an enormous new stage has been

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Live Music: Folk Festival 50, Newport, R.I. (Day Two)

Ken Shane August 18, 2009 4

To be honest, I had my doubts about Day Two of Folk Festival 50. First of all, I was still tired from the day one. Next, it appeared that the lineup wasn’t quite as

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Live Music: Folk Festival 50, Newport, R.I. (Day One)

Ken Shane August 10, 2009 6

The Newport Folk Festival turned 50 over the weekend, and Popdose's Ken Shane was there. Read his recap of the festival's first day here

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Live Music: XPoNential Music Festival, Camden, N.J.

Ken Shane July 30, 2009 4

All Photos Copyright © David J. Simchock. Visit David’s Website: Vagabond Vistas. WXPN is the listener sponsored Triple A radio station associated with the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and one of the finest stations

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Live Music: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, East Rutherford, N.J., 5/21/09

Ken Shane June 24, 2009 1
I admit it. I’m jaded. After seeing more than 50 Bruce Springsteen shows over the years, with and without the E Street Band, it’s gotten to the

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Live Music: David Byrne @ Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, 6/8/09

Taylor Long June 10, 2009 0

An overwhelming 27,000 people showed up to see David Byrne play a free show at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on Monday night. The show was the opening of the 2009 Celebrate Brooklyn

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Live Music: GAS @ Miller Theatre, 5/29/09

Taylor Long June 2, 2009 0

Save the massive excitement surrounding what was claimed to be his first and only show in the U.S. (though it seems he played Chicago three nights prior), everything about Wolfgang Voigt’s show at Columbia

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Live Music: Pattern Is Movement and St. Vincent @ Webster Hall, 5/20/09

Taylor Long May 29, 2009 0

Pattern Is Movement have certainly lived up to the Movement part of their name, touring relentlessly since the release of their excellent fourth album, All Together. Seeing them for the third time since October,

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Live Music: Akron/Family @ Bowery Ballroom, 5/6/09

Taylor Long May 8, 2009 0

After seeing jam-freak-avant-folksters Akron/Family put on an incredible show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool in March, there was only one thing left to do: Go home, go online, buy tickets to see them again. After

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