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ACL overview and Day 3 recap: Avoiding politics without even trying, and the best sets and songs of the weekend

October 22, 2022October 22, 2022 Joeyconcert review

Running around for my final day at ACL Weekend Two on Sunday, I realized just how little overt politics I had seen from any performers. With a midterm election coming, post-Roe America just a few months[…]

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ACL Day 2 quick recap: Pink, War on Drugs and Death Cab are musical sundials; Sloppy Jane commits to the method

October 16, 2022October 16, 2022 Joeyartist feature

This will sound like a strange premise, but I can be strange, so stay with me for a second: Imagine that you’re blind, you fall asleep on a blanket at ACL, and you wake up[…]

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ACL Day 1 quick recap: Wet Leg becomes an artistic double threat; Phoenix est très bien; and my feet get a reprieve

October 15, 2022 Joeyconcert review

Anybody who does all three days of ACL — really does it, as oppose to just camping in one convenient spot all day — knows what it does to your feet. Specifically, it murders them.[…]

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Shows: The Bad Lovers, Rattlesnake Milk, the Crack Pipes and Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs @ Hotel Vegas

September 28, 2022September 29, 2022 Joeyconcert review

If this lineup for the Bad Lovers’ single release party was “all like 2014,” as Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs said near the start of her solo opening set, well … take me back? Simpler[…]

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Shows: Vandoliers @ 3Ten ACL Live

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Joeyconcert review

Pretty much as soon as Vandoliers began playing Thursday night, I thought about when the last time was that I’d heard anything that could be described as “cowpunk,” or even heard the term. Even in[…]

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Shows: Y’all Out Boy’s Far Out party makes pop-punk feel like the perfect genre it definitely isn’t

July 9, 2022 Joeyconcert review

If I wanted to detail my complicated personal relationship with pop-punk, I could probably go on for awhile. I might even bore the ever-loving crap out of you in the process. For concision — because I really[…]

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