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Mikal Cronin: May 5, 2015 Bowery Ballroom – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photos courtesy of P Squared Photography] Mikal Cronin is a master of power pop, combining the Big Star sound with punk’s rawer side. His latest for Merge Records, MCIII, finds the Ty Segall...
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William Tyler: May 5, 2015 Bowery Ballroom & April 18, 2015 Chaz’s Bull City...
[Possibly the coolest photo of Willy T I have seen, courtesy of P Squared Photography] William Tyler is a force. “That was a tragic song, in case you guys couldn’t pick up on that, because the lyrics...
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Hiss Golden Messenger: June 2, 2015 Music Hall of Williamsburg –...
[photos courtesy of P Squared Photography] Maybe an opening set by Hiss Golden Messenger at Music Hall of Williamsburg doesn’t merit quite the word count I gave April’s homecoming show at Haw River...
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Mac McCaughan: May 16, 2015 Baby’s All Right – Flac/MP3/Streaming
[photo by Chris Quartly – courtesy of Free Williamsburg] Mac McCaughan has pretty much done it all in the world of music. He’s the co-owner of Merge Records, one of the foremost independent labels...
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Flesh Wounds: September 12, 2015 Orange County Social Club Day Show (Raleigh,...
For the second year running, one of my favorite Hopscotch shows has been the Orange County Social Club day show at Kings. And just like last year’s lineup, local Carrboro punk band Flesh Wounds is one...
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Destroyer: October 4, 2015 Webster Hall – FLAC/MP3/Streaming
[photos by P Squared Photography] With the newly-released double LP Poison Season, Dan Bejar, aka Destroyer, has absolutely outdone himself. His finest album to date, Poison Season is a lush...
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Pipe: September 12, 2015 Orange County Social Club Day Show (Raleigh, NC) –...
Our friend and fellow taper, David Schwentker reports: By Day 3 of Hopscotch, it can be tough to get out and moving after two full days of non-stop rockin’ and partying. Luckily, the past few years,...
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Hiss Golden Messenger: November 19, 2015 Baby’s All Right
Continuing with the “running out of things to say” theme, I think even the band is starting to wonder if I do much of anything besides attend Hiss Golden Messenger concerts. If you read about the...
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Superchunk: December 3, 2015 Baby’s All Right
[photo courtesy of Ellen Qbertplaya] Superchunk spawned one of the most revered independent labels, revitalized the music scene of two entire towns, and continue to inspire men and women alike to pogo...
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William Tyler: February 2, 2016 Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, NY) + June 26,...
Our friend William Tyler has been a real road warrior these past few years, hitting NYC multiple times both as a headliner and support act. These two performances represent the latter, with Tyler’s...
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The Mountain Goats: April 17, 2016 City Winery
[photo courtesy of music_defined‘s instagram page] As noted in our review of the New Haven show, the concept of this Mountain Goats tour grew up around the band’s City Winery gigs of last year, of...
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PS Eliot: September 15, 2016 Market Hotel
[photo courtesy of Amanda Hatfield – originally posted at brooklynvegan] On Saturday December 9, 2011, PS Eliot played its “final” show at Death By Audio in Brooklyn in front of less than 100 people....
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A Giant Dog: September 8, 2016 Hopscotch Music Festival, Slim’s (Raleigh, NC)
[screen capture from this video] The addition of the Austin band A Giant Dog to the Merge Records team further bolstered the label’s noisier section of the roster. The band’s well-received Merge...
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Teenage Fanclub: October 15, 2016 Bowery Ballroom
[photos by PSquared Photography] The legend goes that in 1991, SPIN Magazine selected Teenage Fanclub’s album Bandwagonesque as its record of the year ahead of such luminaries as REM’s Out of Time,...
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Lambchop: September 8, 2016 Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, NC)
By now, Lambchop fans have had a chance to hear the band’s daring new record, FLOTUS, a critically-acclaimed shot across the bow to anyone who would dare claim a classic artist can’t reinvent...
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Hiss Golden Messenger – November 15, 2016 Music Hall of Williamsburg
Hiss Golden Messenger’s new album, Heart Like a Levee, is one for dark times—and dark times we’ve got in abundance. Still, last week’s tour stop at the Music Hall of Williamsburg was nothing if not...
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Teenage Fanclub: March 27, 2017 Warsaw Brooklyn
[photo by Dean Keim] We approached the return of Teenage Fanclub this past Fall with much optimism and we were rewarded with a superb new album and an outstanding show in October at Bowery Ballroom....
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Lambchop: March 30, 2017 Bowery Ballroom
[photo by PSquared Photography] In my not so humble opinion, Lambchop’s FLOTUS was the best album of 2016. In a similar regard, “In Care of 8675309” is the best song released this decade. What makes...
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Waxahatchee: July 15, 2017 Warsaw BK
[photos by Joe Saturday – courtesy of We All Want Someone blog] Last September, Katie and Allison Crutchfield’s first major band PS Eliot reunited for a brief tour and the results were quite...
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the Mountain Goats: November 12, 2017 Brooklyn Steel
[photo by Megan Etzel] All the stars aligned for this Sunday night return to NYC for the Mountain Goats. On tour in support of their newest release, the excellent Goths (Merge Records) album, the band...
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