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Person: MSW
Lower Dens
An odd, awkward space. An odd set — not a single song from Nootropics. But that voice wins.
Jon Hopkins, Clark, Nathan Fake
Expectations: This show was billed as an "early" show–a double billed electronic performance set with a third as an opener. Doors at 6 with the assumption that music would start shortly thereafter. We'd watch some knob turning, shake our bodies a bit, and have a seat at a nearby restaurant for dinner no later than […]
Atoms for Peace
When you get to a show and the first thing you see after getting out of your car is a late model red pick up truck with a piano being played by a bearded man in the bed of the truck and atop that piano is a real live bull dog, then you're probably in […]
Deerhunter w/ Jackson Scott
"If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more…" -Ravi Shankar "I'm wearing a Black Flag t-shirt and playing a tamborine." -Thought of Frankie Broyles Please consider sending a charitable donation to the American Red Cross. All proceeds will be used to support blood banks for the […]
Suuns
The Black Cat's backroom has a capacity of about 100, I'm guessing. The Suuns show was probably at about 25% capacity, but they didn't seem to care. They were strictly business in an indie kind of way. They were confident, mildly self-entertained, and as best I could tell, able to execute exactly as they had […]
Indians and Cat Martino
Twitter-style reviews (that were never actually tweeted). @heyiamindians A vest and a see-through top walk into a bar…and play nice songs very true to their recorded work. But I still can't help but think they are only an (un)plug away from a Danish version of the Steve Perry-led Journey. @CatMartino "At what point does music […]