In New York, baseball is akin to religion. To many New Yorkers, Billy Joel is, too. So it was no surprise when it was announced that Joel would play the…
Concert Reviews
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Taylor Long
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When the Fleet Foxes performed at Bowery Ballroom last week, frontman Robin Pecknold had a cold. But unlike a downtrodden, silent Frank Sinatra, the audience might have never known it…
Jon Cummings
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The stifling heatwave that gripped southern California for a full week blew away just in time for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to fill L.A.Á¢€™s Greek Theatre with music and…
Zack Dennis
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On Tuesday night, clad in a green shirt and gleefully cheering on the Celtics (who I was indoctrinated to support during my childhood in Connecticut) as they humiliated the Lakers,…
Zack Dennis
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IÁ¢€™m still reeling from this show. I had heard of Cloud Cult via KEXP, but they hadnÁ¢€™t made enough of an impression on me that IÁ¢€™d been awaiting this show…
Anthony Kuzminski
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When I see a concert, I hope that the artist resonates in a way that moves you beyond the two or three hour performance. There are nights where you want…
Scott Malchus
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Waiting in line outside the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, milling about with hundreds of other hungry fans, I suspected that the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
I first learned of Say Hi to Your Mom from a WBAR podcast, when the DJ said: Á¢€Å“The next song is from Say Hi to Your Mom, which is hard…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
Long Beach is not an attractive city. Downtown, where a shopping mall is under construction, is filled with thick concrete barriers and overhanging chain-link fences.It feels like a demilitarized zone….
Taylor Long
2 Min Read
Much like John Darnielle himself, the Mountain Goats’ audience at Webster Hall on Tuesday night had a tendency to flaunt its wit. Every time someone called out a song request…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
Explosions in the Sky is possibly my favorite band in the world right now. The first song of theirs that I ever heard was Á¢€Å“Your Hand in Mine,Á¢€ which I…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
My evening on Saturday 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…
Taylor Long
1 Min Read
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…
Dw. Dunphy
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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…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
The last time I went to Tangier, almost two years ago, it was a bit of a disaster. A few weeks before at my first Beverly Hills party, filled primarily…
Taylor Long
1 Min Read
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…
Zack Dennis
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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,…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
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…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
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…
Zack Dennis
1 Min Read
Before heading over to the Troubadour for the Matt Nathanson show I took my girlfriend out for an Á¢€Å“appreciation nightÁ¢€ to thank her for enduring some horrendous traffic the previous…
John C. Hughes
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Fear and denial were my initial reactions when I was told by the boyfriend that we were going to see the Spice Girls Live! In Concert! Truthfully, I had my…
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