Photo by Lauren Gosninski from VIA Words by Brendan What a way to start off a year of concertgoing. I’ve never seen a show end due to a band injury before, but that’s exactly what happened here. Kim Phuc – Copsucker LP by Kim Phuc

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Words and photos by Brendan My feelings about this show have fluctuated over the last week and a half. I was excited to go, despite not really knowing Beirut‘s music that well, but then it was so crowded at the show, I couldn’t enjoy myself. I left disappointed, more so with my inability to even [...]

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Words by Brendan This show made me wax contemplative in the post-event evening, Tweeting this gem of an observation: “Don’t you love/hate it when a band is so good at playing music that it makes you want to better at writing about music?” Nice grammar there, BS, but you get the idea. I was so [...]

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Words by Vicki / Photos by Julie Van Wassen Over my years of concert-going, I’ve developed a time-tested law of live performances: The amount one geeks out over a band is directly proportionate to one’s inability to gauge how popular that band really is. Though I have seen this play out again and again, I [...]

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Words by Brendan / Photo by Will Gunther It was the rowdiest of concerts, it was the dreamiest of concerts. It was the age of crowd-surfing, it was the age of sitting attentively. It was the epoch of loud guitars and raucous crowd antics, it was the epoch of dreamy pop sounds and beautiful voices [...]

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Words by Vicki / Photos by Julie Van Wassen When I bought my ticket to Foster the People back in June, there was a definite buzz surrounding the band. In the weeks leading up to the show, every time I listened to mainstream radio for more than 10 minutes, I inevitably heard their single, “Pumped [...]

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Words by Brendan / Photo by Will Gunther I know I’ve said this before, but it needs to be said: the Warhol Theatre is gorgeous. Great seating, great views, great sound, and it’s inside a cool and interesting museum. What’s not to love? My friends and I made an evening out of this show, grabbing [...]

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Words by Brendan / Photos by Hugh Twyman Holy. Shit. There was so much energy in the Brillobox at this show! The bands (Those Darlins, Natural Child, Ursa Major), the crowd, the floor—everything was in motion. The entire night feels like a throbbing blur in my head now (in a good way), just a swirling [...]

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Words by Brendan I’m not sure how to label this post. It’s partly an introduction to a great band, so I want to say it’s a New To Us, New To You? segment. It’s partly a transcription of an awesome, lengthy chat I had with the band, so I want to call it an interview. [...]

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