Grace Potter and the Nocturnals – This Is Somewhere
subtlety and concision you don't often find with noodle-dancers
Medicine
Joey
Oasis
Some Kind
Paris
Watching You
Ah Mary
Big White Gate
Things I Never Needed
Sweet Hands
Not huge, but a decent amount of time on stage for an opening slot.
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here comes a regular : john doe
Could you encompass my 80’s music experience any more neatly? Doubt it. Here Come A Regular. I was having a conversation with a guitar player I know about early 80’s rock. I spoke about X and The Replacements and that musical connection of a live show and, well, here you go.
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garotas suecas - "codinome dinamite"
via Carrie Brownstein “The band is called Garotas Suecas, and I urge you to remember the name. Within two songs, I went from sitting at a table nodding my head to the front row — only about eight Brooklynites were willing to dance — at which point I became that person standing in front of the lead singer basically losing my mind. I am 34 years old. It has literally been a decade since I went up to a stage, closed my eyes, danced like a fool and never wanted the moment to end. All I kept thinking was that I wished everyone I knew could witness this show.”
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alex chilton is gone
Ann Powers at the LA Times blog
I have a tattered souvenir from a Big Star store in Memphis, picked up on a pilgrimage to the South that I made when I was barely 21, when I set forth to find some mineral traces of the blues and early rock heritage I’d only read about in books. What I found on that journey was Alex Chilton. I’d already come to love Big Star’s catalog, introduced to me via the mix tapes my friends and I made for each other as we built our own twisted history of Americana from what the band X once called “the unheard music.” Alex Chilton was a wandering, heretical patriarch of our new religion. Bands like the Replacements and R.E.M. found him inspirational. (Members of one such group, the Posies, would later play with a reformed Big Star.) College radio DJs turned Big Star’s catchy but unkempt songs into the hits they should have been the first time around. The band had been active in the 1970s, but they belonged to us, the kids fighting off the shadow of the Baby Boomers who’d been too dumb to realize how great it was. More...local natives : airplanes
You can stream the entire album at the band’s homepage.
the bangles : hero takes a fall
First chick band that I thought was great. Listen to those harmonies and that lead guitar sound. Before they “sold out” (which they themselves admit) they had a great thing going. In 1985 I hung out pre and post show with them in a bar in Virginia Beach – still a night to remember. Susanna is still doing it with Matthew Sweet – Rain, Different Drum, Cinnamon Girl, You’re So Vain, Maggie May – check out “Under The Covers”.
zooey for the win
“She & Him” video premier of “In The Sun” – Zooey hula hoops! Stick a fork in me.
lissie : little lovin'
Lissie is one of my favorite new voices.
the unofficial sxsw torrent
5.5 Gigabytes!?! of music from bands performing at SXSW here. Also available are past year torrents. Fire up your client!cat power : remember me
This cover of an Otis Redding cover tears me up everytime.
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Hope you don’t mind my cross pollination … Here’s a short review:
“WOW – Is all I can say. If their show last night indicates the way the rest of the tour is going to go…then watch out! I’ve seen the band perform a few times now, but last night they had an energy that I have never seen before. … We are heading down to Atlanta tonight for the second show and I can’t wait. We hung out with everyone (but Scotty) after the show by their bus and they were all is such high spirits. Benny even “skipped” their band meeting to be our entertainer for the evening – as he called it. I could say so-SO much more, but I will just leave it with two words: EXCITMENT, AMAZMENT!
Hope everyone on here gets a chance to catch (at least) one of their shows on this tour. Even if they are the opener, they sure don’t play like one !”
I thought that Grace Potter was the headliner on this tour. Who is the headliner? I saw GPN in Norfolk, CT and it was one of the best concerts I’d seen during the year (http://www.archive.org/details/GPN2009-08-08.Infinityhall.Aud). I do not see how the band is doing itself justice by playing a 10 set playlist. I am going to see them in NYC on Saturday and while I love their music, I will feel cheated if they do not play Stop The Bus.
Nick,
GPN is billed as a “co-headliner” on most dates. They are last in NYC, Boston and Philly.
Thank you!!!
THURSDAY …the new H.O.B … Boston .. will be rocking!
haha, no problem with stealing my review
I’m happy to share…I just put up a review of the Atlanta show too if you’d like to steal that one as well feel free. I didn’t write as much about either show that they truly deserve but all anyone needs to know is I think they are coming out sounding better than ever and their chemistry on stage is truly sick (in a great way)!