Nov 24, 2015
Live
Le Guess Who? 2015
For the first night, I took it easy. Well, easyish. Along the way I learned that I’m late to the party on an indie darling, that Germans know how to rock, heartache still sells, and the Dutch are crazy y’all. Let’s blurb it out.
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Nov 17, 2015
Live
Yo La Tengo
The hackneyed phrase often lobbed at slow, subtly evolving music is that listening to it is akin to watching paint dry; absorbing Yo La Tengo’s largely acoustic performance at the Vic Theatre, then, was more like trying to lap up every last droplet of an ice cream cone melting all too rapidly.
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Nov 16, 2015
Live
Iceland Airwaves 2015
Björk and Sigur Rós cast long shadows over this year’s Iceland Airwaves. Ever the nation’s musical ambassadors, both managed made an impact without performing. Björk, (who was once slated to headline) hosted a press conference to discuss environmental initiatives, while Sigur Rós debuted a new concert film. With the lack of a big-name Icelandic show, the sixteen annual edition of the fest became an excellent hunting ground for new and upcoming artists.
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Nov 15, 2015
Live
Anna B Savage
I spent my afternoon on a tour, during which a sweater-clad tour guide insisted that we all have a beer and took us to the Whales of Iceland museum to meet the mayor of Reykjavik.
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Nov 14, 2015
Live
Björk
I can’t count the number of people who, upon hearing I was going to Iceland Airwaves, cracked some joke about saying hello to Björk and Sigur Ros.
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Nov 13, 2015
Live
Iceland Airwaves 2015
Maybe it was the jetlag. But it took me until Thursday evening, during Sóley’s set to realize the obvious.
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Oct 23, 2015
Live
My daughter Rose is just a little over two and a half years old, but she’s already the veteran of three SXSWs. Granted, she was only two and a half months old when she first attended the Austin music conference and spent most of the time in a hotel room with her grandmother, but in her second and third SXSW adventures she did witness a bit of live music at Under the Radar’s SXSW parties.
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Sep 22, 2015
Live
The Goddamn Gallows
On Saturday night in a local North Philly sports bar, all hell broke loose. The hell in question was Michigan hillbilly hardcore five-piece The Goddamn Gallows.
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