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The National makes vast Radio City Music Hall feel intimate at sold-out NY show

Radio City Music Hall is a big room, and The National makes music for intimate spaces. Yet the band expanded Wednesday night, figuratively and literally, to fill the 6,000-seat New York City venue with rich musical arrangements on songs that became somehow inclusively insular.
Assisted at first by a pair of horn players, the musicians seemed [...]

Hold Steady mixes new songs into killer set of older jams in Northampton, Mass.

Listen, Dammit, has seen the Hold Steady a lot and two of the best Hold Steady concerts we’ve seen have been in Northampton, Mass.
The band made its second-ever stop there Tuesday at the Pearl Street Nightclub with a set that included a handful of new songs from forthcoming album “Heaven is Whenever” and an inspired [...]

SXSW: Plants and Animals grab attention with catchy jams at Brooklyn Vegan bash

Montreal band Plants and Animals sometimes describes itself as “post-classic rock.” We’re not really sure what that means.
All we know is that we were only half paying attention to the start of their set at the Brooklyn Vegan/M for Montreal day party Saturday when things suddenly got really catchy, and we were swept away by [...]

SXSW: Freelance Whales more than a ‘cutesy affectation’ at Frenchkiss show

New York band Freelance Whales only formed a year and a half ago and already there’s a backlash, with Pitchfork deriding the group as “a cutesy affectation without actual purpose.”
That’s pretty harsh, so Listen, Dammit, decided to see for itself at the Frenchkiss Records showcase Friday at SXSW.
Our conclusion: Lighten up, Pitchfork.
Sure, the band is [...]

SXSW: Hole returns to U.S. stage for first time in 8 years at Spin magazine party

Well that was anticlimactic.
Returning to a U.S. stage for the first time since calling it quits in 2002, Hole — or a version thereof — performed to a packed house at Stubbs Friday afternoon at SXSW as part of Spin magazine’s day party.
Supported by an unconvincing backing band, singer Courtney Love — the sole remaining [...]

SXSW: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings offer lesson in pure, funky soul

Poor Justin. The scrawny kid caught the eye of Sharon Jones midway through her daytime set at Mohawk Thursday afternoon, and she pulled him up on stage during “Be Easy” as an object lesson in purposeful rhythm.
“Don’t worry: I’m gonna break him in,” Jones cracked to a capacity crowd
Who better?
Backed by her ace soul band [...]

SXSW: Visqueen opens NPR showcase Wednesday night with quick set at Stubbs

Wednesday was a big deal for Seattle band Visqueen: Just two year ago, leader Rachel Flotard thought she might be finished with music.
Instead, she and her band recorded last year’s stunning power-pop album “Message to Garcia,” which led to a high-profile performance opening NPR’s talent-packed showcase Wednesday night at Stubbs’ amphitheater.
With Neko Case watching from [...]

SXSW: Lissie sings with riveting, rootsy soul during afternoon set for Paste

All the buzz around Lissie makes sense once you hear her perform.
The Rock Island, Ill., native, last name of Maurus, sings with a sort of rustic soul on spare songs that sometimes border on spellbinding.
Her set Wednesday afternoon at the Galaxy Room as part of a Paste magazine day party had even the first-day SXSW [...]

SXSW: Givers kick off Wednesday with engaging, energetic set at Paste party

Just as breakfast is the most important meal of the day, the first set you catch at South by Southwest can set the tone for everything that follows.
It was a great start, then, for the crowd that kicked off this year’s festival with Givers.
Playing at the Galaxy Room Backyard as part of a Paste magazine [...]

Holly Golightly delivers comedy, and a few songs, too, at Mercury Lounge in NY

After punk, the smart rockers graduate to alt-country. It’s a career path that’s worked wonders for Holly Golightly, former lead singer of ’90s faves Thee Headcoatees, an all-girl garage group associated with eccentric British punk-rock mastermind Billy Childish’s “Medway scene.”
These days, Holly rocks vintage dresses, strums a hollowbody and lives in a Georgia farmhouse with [...]

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