Entries Tagged as 'Concerts'
Um, yeah, so holy shit you guys. Ben wasn't lying when he gushed about the awesomeness of Wolf Parade when he saw them in Chicago. Wolf Parade is incredible live. I didn't have my proper camera on me at this show (just the iPhone - above, which is taking increasingly out of focus photos, for some reason), so I'll let Ben do a full review of this show when he gets his computer up and running again from the move, but I want to encourage any of you who are in cities that Wolf Parade is destined for on this ...
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Categories: Concerts, Music
Tags: Dallas, DFW, Palladium, Tour Dates, Wolf Parade
Quick bit of info my friend Mark notified me of, click on this link with your iTunes open, and you can download a Lightspeed Champion live show with 6 songs for only $1.99. If you aren't familiar with Dev's newest project, this is a perfect introduction - not much cash for a few great songs. The setlist is as follows:
Everyone I Know is Listening to Crunk
Galaxy of the Lost
Dry Lips
No Surprise
Tell Me What It's Worth
Midnight Surprise
If you would like to check out the prodigious amount of love that Lightspeed Champion gets on this here site, click the band name in the tag cloud ...
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Categories: Concerts, Music
Tags: Lightspeed Champion, Live
Posted July 20th, 2008 by BVaz · 1 Comment
Well I am in the process of moving so I can't do any proper website updates for a little while, but in the meantime, I started a twitter for the site here and I will update with stuff from Pitchfork today, and also from Lollapalooza in a couple weekends when that happens. I also have a lot of my photo blogging still going on here. Once I get stuff organized next week I should be able to get some photos from the preview night and Pitchfork up.
As for yesterday at Pitchfork, I wasn't there the entire day thanks ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: Chicago, Pitchfork Music Fest, Summer Festival, Twitter, Union Park
Marcus and I went to the former the Gypsy Tea Room (now The Door) to see Maps & Atlases on Friday night, and it's apparent that the owners of the Door have done NOTHING to improve that venue; it's still the same terrible sounding, awful dump that it always was. At any rate, Maps & Atlases was very sharp and highly entertaining, and you can check out all of my photos from their show here. This was my first exposure to M&A, other than clips on YouTube, and these guys have an interesting, rather ecclectic/experimental sound, but it comes together in a nice ...
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Categories: Concerts, Music, Reviews
Tags: 2008, DFW, Gasoline Heart, Maps & Atlases, The Door, Tour Dates
Wolf Parade is just one of those bands that is just really fucking in the zone right now, with a superb album that is my favorite of '08 so far, building buzz around said album, and a big ole tour to go out and blow some minds, and they showed their prowess once again last night at the House of Blues in downtown Chicago. They are one of those bands that I would put in the indie 'elite' as far as bands that pretty much bring solid gold with everything they do, and that certainly includes their live show. ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music, Reviews
Tags: 2008, Awesome, Chicago, House of Blues Chicago, Wolf Parade
With the greatness of the Pitchfork Music Fest coming up next weekend, I thought I would throw some fuel on the hype fire for it with some of the bands that will be blowing our minds come time for the festival. I already covered some more Dinosaur Jr. last Thursday so let's hit up some of the other acts.
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Mix Tape Monday, Music
Tags: Bon Iver, Cut Copy, Fleet Foxes, Pitchfork Music Fest, Spoon, Summer Festival
Headed up to the Beat Kitchen last night for some tunage from Welsh rockers People In Planes. You may remember when I saw these guys a few months ago in the weirdest concert venue ever, the Cubby Bear, but they managed to put on a good show despite the circumstances. I have always been a huge fan of their debut album "As Far As The Eye Can See", and now they are back in the US touring on their new record "Beyond the Horizon". Last night they put on another solid performance.
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music, Reviews
Tags: 2008, Beat Kitchen, Chicago, People in Planes, Wales
One of the great new discoveries for me earlier this year was Ra Ra Riot when I saw them opening for The Cribs at Double Door, and I was really impressed with both their stage energy and their songs. I was instantly converted into a fan, and now they have announced a slew of tour dates in support of their upcoming album "The Rhumb Line" (pictured above), out August 19th on Barsuk Records, which is one of the main albums I am looking forward to this summer/fall. I really enjoyed their show earlier this year and will certainly ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: Ra Ra Riot, Tour Dates, Walter Meego
Posted July 2nd, 2008 by BVaz · 1 Comment
Glastonbury has put up videos of full sets from a lot of the artists that played the festival over last weekend, including some of our favorites here at DBF such as The National and MGMT. The full list of artists is here and not everyone has a video setlist up, but a lot of people do, so search around.
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: Glastonbury, Summer Festival, Video
Took my first trip to the Stan Mansion last night for some rock n roll, quite a strange place for a show, but not too shabby. It is basically a house a few blocks south of Logan Square, and is just in some ballroom in this giant house. It has the same "place where they hold prom" look to it that Logan Square Auditorium has, and I think they do hold gala events and stuff there. It was odd for sure, but kind of cool, you could walk around to the side of the band and see ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music, Reviews
Tags: 2008, Chicago, Evangelicals, Frog Eyes, Shearwater, Stan Mansion
Islands was awesome. It's the show that, let's say the French Kicks woke up from their nap, got excited, and reworked all of their music to be high energy. With two violinists. Honestly, it was the best show that I have seen in a long while (maybe New Pornographers/Spoon of last November - maybe even longer than that). They came on the stage and absolutely ripped every song they played and the crowd loved every second of it. The show was once again at the Granada in Dallas, and when we arrived, AWOL was onstage:
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Categories: Concerts, Music, Reviews
Tags: Arm's Way, AWOL, Dallas, DFW, Granada, Islands
Posted June 24th, 2008 by BVaz · 2 Comments
You guys may have heard some about the controversy surrounding Kanye's performance at Bonnaroo, and how shit was thrown on stage and he was being booed and all kinds of stuff. Well Kanye has posted a long response on his website to those ripping on him for the Bonnaroo situation, basically saying they fucked him on the stage setup and the time slot, which caused the now infamous delay. I don't doubt that his stage setup is insane, and festivals have never been a real custom stage friendly kind of environment. It will be interesting to see ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: Bonnaroo, Kanye West
Posted June 24th, 2008 by BVaz · 1 Comment
Even though Berman & Co. may have originally refused to play live for a long time, that time is over, and the Silver Jews are back on tour again. I am a huge fan of the new album "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea", and never having seen them live before I am looking forward to checking them out. The full tour date list from Brooklyn Vegan...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: Silver Jews, Tour Dates
The Hideout has announced the initial lineup for their annual block party over on their website. I was at the block party last year to see.....bloc party oddly enough, and it was pretty solid, and it looks like they are bringing some incredibly solid acts to the party again this year, with New Pornographers, Neko Case and Black Mountain (awesome) already on the lineup. I have seen both New Pornographers and Black Mountain earlier this year and both are certainly worth checking out (Neko was injured and unable to play with the Pornos at the Riviera though). ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: 2008, Black Mountain, Chicago, Hideout, Hideout Block Party, New Pornographers, Summer Festival
Well it has been a crazy morning of website errors and whatnot, but I am happy to say our happy little DBF group will be rolling to exactly the shows we wanted to go to, the Rogue Wave on Friday and the BSS on Saturday (with Yeasayer opening). It is a good thing that Sunday seems to be the slowest day of the festival for people I like since I will most likely be worn the fuck out after all of this madness. Should be good times though. Anyway, it seemed like the Schuba's shows sold out ...
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Categories: Concerts, Main, Music
Tags: 2008, Broken Social Scene, Chicago, Dr. Dog, Lollapalooza, Rogue Wave, Summer Festival, Yeasayer
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