The Pimps of Joytime lit up Divisadero Street in San Francisco this past weekend, playing back-to-back sold-out shows at the pristine sounding Independent and giving all the patrons in attendance…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Earlier this week, I saw Iggy Pop and the Stooges perform live at the Warfield to an audience of about 2,000 people. The band was supposed to swing through San…
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Angela Zimmerman
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The funk tends to bring the fun, and Saturday night’s installment of San Francisco’s 10th annual Funk Festival lured the city’s dance party people out to help Afrolicious and the…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Straight out of Baltimore by way of Greenville, North Carolina, Future Islands brought their own brand of crazy to Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday night. The show, headlined by…
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Dave Lifton
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A review of Julian Velard concert last Friday at Schubas in Chicago.
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Angela Zimmerman
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At San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall late last week, the Felice Brothers proved themselves a long way from the early busking days that broke them onto the music scene…
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Angela Zimmerman
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I just got back from the desert, and chances are, you know someone else who has as well. It’s taken 25 years for Black Rock City to become a major…
Michael Fortes
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Neil Young and Joanna Newsom lent their talents to a worthy cause in San Francisco, and Michael Fortes gives the rundown on how it all unfolded.
Michael Parr
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Michael Parr reviews The Weepies’ recent performance at the Hiro Ballroom in NYC.
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel gives you the lowdown on the three-day festival, which begins this Thursday in Cincinnati, and tells you which artists she thinks you should see.
Matt Wardlaw
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“You know, he sounded JUST as good as he sounded when I saw him in the ’90s!” The comment, uttered by a fellow concertgoer as we were leaving Sunday night’s…
Dave Steed
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This past Tuesday marked my first metal show in ages. With a kid and a wife who likes pop and country music, getting out to metal gigs just doesn’t happen…
Michael Parr
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Michael Parr reviews Caleb Hawley at Rockwood Music Hall, in New York, NY, 8/19/10.
Ken Shane
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If anything, the final day of the 2010 Newport Folk Festival was even more beautiful than the day before, and Newport Harbor was at the height of its midsummer glory….
Ken Shane
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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…
Matt Wardlaw
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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…
Ted Asregadoo
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Rush –the world’s most famous cult band — brought their Time Machine Tour to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA for a marathon set (or should I say, two…
Ken Shane
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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,…
Ken Shane
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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…
Michelle L. Quinn
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Before the utterly gobsmacked throngs started filing out of the bar to mob him, and before he had a chance to absorb what just happened onstage, Brian David Blush sat…
Ken Shane
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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…
Matt Wardlaw
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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…
Jon Cummings
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The kids from Glee take their show off the air and onto the road. It’s not for the uninitiated — but for Gleeks it’s a pleasure they needn’t feel guilty about. Yet.
Ken Shane
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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…
Kelly Stitzel
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Night two of the 2010 MusicNOW festival was the night I was most looking forward to. I am a huge fan of St. Vincent, the name under which young guitar…
Kelly Stitzel
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Frequent Popdose punchline Joanna Newsom hauls her harp onto the front page for Kelly Stitzel’s live review. Will we have one on her?
Nikki Vanasse
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Ah, the wonders of Facebook. I never attended any of my high school reunions (that means I’m 0 for 5), so when I connected with a few of my girls…
Taylor Long
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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,…
Taylor Long
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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…
Taylor Long
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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…