Posts with tag: Shows

4 Jan 2011

2000 Brian Wilson “Pet Sounds Symphony” Show Review

[More nostalgia: Copied from an e-mail I sent Oct 18, 2000.]

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4 Jan 2011

Brittle Stars 2000 East Coast Tour Diary

[Hey, only 11 years late. Found this rummaging through some old files. With the title "Tour diary – achingly detailed version", you know it's gonna be riveting.]

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4 Feb 2010

David Rawlings and Gillian Welch on Tiny Desk

Amazing performance and recording. Apparently David’s a great writer, too. I need this album.

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29 Apr 2008

Brittle Stars @ Pop Mayhem, Thursday, May 8

6500 miles can’t stop the rock. Thursday, May 8th, a reunited Brittle Stars play Common Grounds as a part of Gainesville’s Pop Mayhem festival. Hear songs such as, but not performed as well as, these: Falling Backwards Someplace (but not this place) This Trip So Unfair Also that night: Ifwhen, the Buddy System, Giddy-Up Helicopter,

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25 Jun 2006

Missing a show twice

Saturday night. Josh called from Common Grounds to remind me to come to the Holopaw show. It’s a bit after 11, so I still have time to see them. When I get down there it’s some sort of free event and Neko Case is a surprise opener! She starts playing Buddy Holly’s “Baby Won’t You

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30 Mar 2006

WDHV and Maria Taylor

WDHV 101.7 is a little FM station in Trenton that plays some great pre-70′s classic country. The other day I caught the tail end of “Talk Back Trembling Lips” from 1963 and the rhythm section and reverb filled the van so nicely–it made my morning. They do slip in later stuff and even up to

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15 Feb 2006

Of Montreal free tonight!

9PM in the Reitz Union’s Rion Ballroom. I read somewhere it’s “first-come, first-served” but students get priority so I’m guessing, once filled to capacity, men on horses with nets will drag non-students out. I saw them last in Athens.

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15 Nov 2005

The Clientele on KCRW

RealVideo | RealAudio | mp3 | info page. Thanks KCRW!

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9 Sep 2005

Hana’s First Show

I posted on Gainesvillebands.com: This is Hana’s first show and you should be there. They’re writing the most beautiful mellow songs you’ve never heard…songs that you’ll come to treasure and nestle in your mixCDs and playlists around Low and MBV and the Clientele for years to come, but you get to enjoy them NOW out

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18 Aug 2005

The Pernice Bros in Jax

Sunday, Sept. 4th @ Jackrabbits Who’s with me? I admit my interest has waned a bit in the albums following The World Won’t End, but the band is great live.

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15 Aug 2005

Athens Popfest 2005 Reviews

I got back yesterday from 4 days of live music in Athens, GA. I just sent this review to the indiepop-list, maybe I’ll write more later.

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6 Aug 2005

What’s Hot? Pt. I

As Paul might say, “fool, I’ll tell you what’s hot.” The French Horns live Last night was our first show with violinist Jesse Long and I proclaim it to be one of our best. He played on five or six songs and added those melodies we missed so much as a trio. Besides that, I

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26 Jun 2005

Last night and thoughts lately

Last night was, at least instrumentally, one of our best..I think. As for vocals, I must apologize to the five people who bothered to stay in the room because the Soft Targets, who played before us, packed up their vocal monitor after they played. They let Josh borrow a drum throne so they had to

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12 Apr 2005

Another year…

…Another French Horns show. This friday at Common Grounds, w/ Lyndon & The Boy and The Knife. We’ll play a couple new songs and supposedly there’ll be Adult Swim viewings and give-a-ways… However, there won’t be a foosball table made out of a Yugo.

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19 Mar 2005

Let’s make this quick

November’s French Horns show was great. December’s was to about five people after sitting through endless amelodic saxophone freakouts. Before they started the guy assured us all that, “we won’t be playing any songs tonight.” I’ll save my rant against free jazz for another time. I think 2004′s was the first Christmas in while that

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20 Oct 2004

What’s that sound?

The French Horns are playing again. Friday, Nov. 12th @ the Atlantic. Come see us try it with a new bassist and cellist. I think we might even have an epic 10/11-song set debuting two new ones. I wish we had a venue called The Oasis so we could play “midnight at the Oasis”. You’ll

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6 Aug 2004

In Athens for the Weekend

I’m going to this, well, Friday’s shows at least. More when I get back. Update 8/15: I’ll get around to writing about this. Here are some photos from the trip.

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18 Jul 2004

More band road trips, please.

Someone go with me to see the Trash Can Sinatras in Atlanta on Sept 14th. They’ve been around for over a decade without coming anywhere near the Southeast and who knows if they will again. Yes, it’s a Tuesday and $15. Suck it up! I’m willing to leave early that evening and possibly drive back

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15 Jul 2004

We love you, Murry!

Friday, July 9th. Sandi and I are in the surprisingly large Orange Peel in Asheville, NC and Rhett and Murry of the Old 97′s are in the middle of wooing us with Murry’s heartbreaking "Valentine". When they get to the break a lone voice says what we’re all thinking, “We love you, Murry!” He doesn’t

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26 Jun 2004

Laura and the Buttons

Quite an evening. I arrive at Laura’s “dirty thirty” party at Kim’s house and all our gear is set up in the living room (it looked like rain). There is much shoving of friends in front of kareoke mics. After an hour or so of watching, when the Hollies’ “Busstop” comes on Amy and I

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