CONCERT REVIEW: THRICE AT THE NEWPORT MUSIC HALL (COLUMBUS)
This review originally appeared in Ryan’s personal blog TUNED UP!, which also follows business trends in music in addition to the usual reviews and news. Thrice (Irvine, CA), La Dispute (Grand Rapids, MI), and O’Brother (Atlanta, GA)October 23rd, 2011Newport Mu
Concert Review: Danzig Legacy at the Congress Theater (Chicago)
Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest contributor coming at us from Frontier Psychiatrist, a site devoted to “urban life, music, food, drink, and culture.” Peter Lillis is on their staff, covering music. Peter and I go back to days debating and talking indie and punk music in Marquett
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: DESSA AND HINDI ZAHRA AT LINCOLN HALL (CHICAGO)
Dessa (Minneapolis, MN) and Hindi Zahra (France/Morocco)October 11th, 2011Lincoln Hall in Chicago, Illinois Sometime during the late summer, not so far away from now actually and in a midst of that still growing curiosity of all that’s going on across the Atlantic, I happened upon the most vib
Concert Review: Beirut at The Pageant (University City, MO)
Beirut (Sante Fe, NM), Lætitia Sadier (London, UK)October 9th, 2011The Pageant in University City, Missouri 8:00 PM As the glossy autumn night descends on Del Mar Blvd, Beirut fans straggle past my patio table at Blue Ocean Sushi, the venue only two blocks away.&n
CONCERT REVIEW: JENS LEKMAN AND GEOFFREY O’CONNOR AT 6TH AND I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
Geoffrey O’Connor (Australia), Jens Lekman (Sweden)5 October 20116th and I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. Here in the Mid-Atlantic, the season has just started to turn. D.C’s oppressive swamp-like humidity has finally broken and Washingtonians are just starting to bre
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: ASTRONAUTALIS AT THE TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB (MINNEAPOLIS)
Astronautalis (Minneapolis), Me and My Arrow (Minneapolis), Votel (Minneapolis)October 3rd, 2011Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota On a warm Monday night, Minneapolis had it’s first chance to welcome it’s newest Rap-resident home with open arms and take in top notch openers&
CONCERT REVIEW: MUTEMATH AT THE GROG SHOP (CLEVELAND)
MUTEMATH (New Orleans, LA)September 25th, 2011Grog Shop in Cleveland, Ohio MUTEMATH rolled into the tiny Grog Shop on the east side of Cleveland, OH on September 25th to melt ears and make fans push their endurance limits all for the sake of good music. The Grog Shop is a tiny venue,
CONCERT REVIEW: DAVID WAX MUSEUM AT THE 9:30 CLUB (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
Over the past few years, the Boston-based David Wax Museum has made a name for itself and its Mexo-Americana music in Washington. Bouncing from living room to living room, the group has played more than 20 shows in the District in venues provided by their fans. Though the 9:30 Club is a bit bigger t
Concert Review: Zaz at Rockwood Music Hall (New York City)
Zaz (Tours, France)July 30th, 2011Rockwood Music Hall in New York City, New York Everyone gets nervous when landing in a foreign country. You stammer with the semblances of the learnt language in hopes that people can understand you. You stumble around hoping you caught the right metro line to the