May 08, 2018
Live
Nick Hakim
When Green Twins came out last year, reviews spent as much time labeling Nick Hakim’s debut as they did discussing the music. Let’s have a go then: Hakim channels old school soul through modern psychedelically tinged elegiac folk, creating a feeling smooth on the surface and disconcerting underneath.
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May 01, 2018
Live
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The phrase “bisexual lighting” has been floating around a lot lately. A page devoted to it on Know Your Meme—because apparently, even lighting can be a meme now—describes it as “neon lighting with high emphasis on pinks, purples, and blues.”
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Apr 24, 2018
Live
It was all in the family for the Winwoods on the last night of Steve Winwood’s Greatest Hits Tour in Bethlehem, PA.
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Nov 10, 2017
Live
Lydia Loveless
Lydia Loveless presents a new and improved self to Philadelphia on a beautiful Saturday night.
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Oct 20, 2017
Live
Desert Daze has restored my faith in festivals. The festival, which celebrated its sixth year this past weekend, is unique in a number of ways, not the least of which is its location in Joshua Tree at the Institute of Mentalphysics.
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Sep 26, 2017
Live
Blood Orange
How do you discuss a show that was so uniformly breathtaking without sounding boring?
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Aug 04, 2017
Live
NYC’s Panorama is a relatively young festival, which makes the smoothness with which it ran very impressive.
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Jul 28, 2017
Live
FYF Fest
It may have taken 13 years, but it looks like the creators of FYF Fest have figured out the key to creating a memorable festival experience-diversity. FYF Fest 2017 proved once over that when festival organizers make a real effort to create a diverse and varied lineup that caters to people across the spectrum, everyone wins.
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