"The Winter of Mixed Drinks"
Frightened Rabbit
"The Suburbs"
Arcade Fire
"Soundtrack To The End"
Communist Daughter
"Crazy For You"
Best Coast
"Treats"
Sleigh Bells
"Silver Soul"
Beach House
"Little Secrets"
Passion Pit
"Unhinged"
Eels
"Black Smoke"
Tindersticks
Carnegie Hall is one of those sacred musical spaces, a vast chancel of imposing dignity and hushed refinement. Ryan Adams took it in stride Tuesday night, making his Carnegie Hall debut with a two-hour performance that matched the sweeping elegance of the room while adding an undercurrent of droll levity. The solo-acoustic concert was part [...]
It took guts for the Dirtbombs to make “Party Store,” the album of classic Detroit techno covers they released earlier this year. It took even more guts for the beloved Motor City garage-rock quintet to stick the 21-minute “Bug In the Bassbin” — three bass notes, repeated ad nauseam, with a whole lot of percussive [...]
It’s hard to imagine that Laura Stevenson could possibly be more charming than she is on her records. But then there’s her live show, where the New York singer totally pulled it off Wednesday in Austin at a SXSW day party sponsored by Riot Act Media. Despite a 10-hour overnight drive from Arkansas to Austin, [...]
If you think writing a song about your stalker is probably a bad idea, you’re clearly not a member of the banned-in-Brooklyn trio Electric Child, who performed the tune Friday afternoon at Spin magazine’s SXSW day party at Stubb’s in Austin. Singer Alison Clancy is the stalkee. She also performs like id unleashed, which has [...]
That Edwyn Collins performed Thursday at SXSW was something of a triumph. In fact, that Edwyn Collins is even alive is a triumph: the singer, songwriter and founder of the influential Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice suffered a pair of debilitating cerebral hemorrhages in 2005 that left him barely able to speak and weak on [...]
Listen, Dammit, has written plenty before about Brent Amaker & the Rodeo, but seeing is believing — particularly when there’s cowboy suits, a burlesque dancer (Ms Bunny Monroe, above) and an applause sign. In a badass 40-minute demonstration of western-style twang, Amaker and the Rodeo rolled through instant classics “Man in Charge,” “Break My Broken [...]
There were two other people on stage, but Dominique Young Unique would have stood out in a crowd of hundreds Tuesday night at Spill in Austin, where the Florida electro-rapper performed the first of nine sets planned for SXSW. She was clearly having a great time. Flanked by a pair of guys laying down clattering [...]
On their last trip to New York City, the Vaselines could do no wrong. Their May 2009 reunion shows in Manhattan and Brooklyn came at the tail end of their first-ever U.S. tour, and amid the comic-gold stage banter of founders Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, the shambolic Scottish popsters played the bulk of their [...]
It takes a deceptive amount of skill to play music with the ramshackle tightness of Pavement. As you’d expect, the band was sloppy Tuesday night at Rumsey Field in New York’s Central Park, the first of four SummerStage shows. But Pavement was sloppy with purpose — the band carefully cultivated that shambolic aesthetic during its [...]
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 [...]
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