It’s been a while since I’ve seen Jovontaes. I’ve seen them at CD Central instores, but I’m pretty sure this was my first time seeing them in a club. This way is much better. Jovontaes threw a couple curveballs during their set, the majority of which pretty successful. In my opinion, they’re at their best [...]

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Do: go see Andy D Do Not: go see Andy D sober with a crowd full of uptight people. Andy D wound up playing two sets at his Cosmic Charlie’s show. The first was a really fun set that garnered very little love from the crowd, the second was a surprise encore at the end [...]

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The Smith Westerns’ show at Al’s might have been the definition of a “mixed bag.” It was enjoyable, for sure, and the new songs are all great, but there were just so many extraneous elements that dampened the fun of the show. For starters, it’s impossible to review the band without talking about the sound [...]

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I showed up about one minute into Daniel Martin Moore’s instore session at CD Central and felt like a stampeding elephant coming through the back door. Apparently the PA was on the fritz, so DMM and company did this performance with no amplification — thus my embarrassment at the sound of the back door slamming [...]

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I didn’t really plan it this way, but this was a great show to have as my first of 2011 and my first in over a month. I knew almost nothing about the Kickback before the show, but quickly fell in love. Live, the Kickback are like a younger, more reckless version of the Walkmen. [...]

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This was a pretty interesting year for concerts. Even after missing Bonnaroo for health reasons, I still caught a lot of great shows. However I think overall the top shows I caught this year didn’t quite reach last year. But, you know, I was finally able to see shows by Local Natives, Joanna Newsom, Deerhoof [...]

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I realized yesterday that I never put up my photos of the Handsome Furs in Halifax. The first 1/3 of the show was fantastic — and really the rest of the show was probably quite good, but I’ll never know because people started coming down the aisles and standing in front of our section to [...]

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When we were getting the “Come As You Aren’t” party all settled, I was just the tiniest bit disappointed that Matt Duncan had decided to cover Steely Dan. What little I knew about Steely Dan, I didn’t really care for. And really, I heard the same thing from a lot of people. Then how crazy [...]

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After years of saying “we should really do this…” I finally booked a Halloween covers show featuring some of my favorite local bands. And it was no surprise that the event was fun from doors open to doors close. But strangely I think the people that might have had the most fun were in Idiot [...]

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