I’ve seen Grizzly Bear many, many times in the past few years. Each show — in addition to being a beautiful experience — has always always had a distinct personality. Grizzly Bear’s show at Pitchfork was kind of a victory lap for the band. Festivals, though great opportunities for them to thrill thousands of fans [...]

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The Decemberists will be playing 10/6 at the Singletary Center in Lexington One thing I try to do with You Ain’t No Picasso is to help build up the music community in Lexington, KY and surrounding areas. However lately I’ve been falling behind with my duties. I haven’t been updating the Concert Calendar area of [...]

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I felt a little guilty to be watching M83 at Pitchfork. I wasn’t doing anything wrong, but I knew that there were hundreds or thousands of people out there who would kill to see them, but yet I, a passive fan, got to be seven feet from the duo, snapping photos and enjoying the music. [...]

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For any of you itching for a follow-up to last year’s phenomenally successful FreeKY fest, WRFL has just the ointment you need. Boomslang is the name of this year’s fall festival which will take place over three days in various venues around town. That much we’ve known for a while, but now we’ve also got [...]

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Man, does it take summer to inspire people to write summer songs? Maybe so, considering that it seems like all the good pop songs are coming out just as summer is waning. Brown Recluse Sings, a group I haven’t heard from in a while, has a new EP ready to share with us. “The Soft [...]

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Those Darlins have been a slow but steady burn around Lexington for a while now. A few months ago Mike at the Green Lantern was telling me to check them out. Then they played the Dame with the Features and I was assured it would be a good time by a lot of friends (had [...]

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Whew. What a day to oversleep, huh? Radiohead checked in today with a new song commemorating the life of recently-deceased WWI vet Harry Patch. He spoke out against war right up until the end when he died at age 111. To put in context just how amazing it is that he lived so long, his [...]

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I almost didn’t post this video. Not because the song isn’t great (it is), Ivana doesn’t perform well (she does) or the quality isn’t any good (it’s top notch). Rather, the problem is that, for a realistic, down-to-earth shoot… it’s too real. There’s a lot of background noise. However, after listening to the audio a [...]

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While I was at the “No Deachunter” show, I got an IM from David from BOAT telling me that there was a postable MP3 from their third LP. So even though I was already wildly excited from being at a great show, I was then even more excited to know that I would be coming [...]

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