Back at a now-defunct festival in Kansas in the summer of 2011, I saw OK Go. With the temperature somewhere in the neighborhood of 95 degrees, the entire band was dressed in colorful ’60s mod-type suits. I[…]
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Category: concert review
Quick reaction: ACL Weekend 2, Day 1 — Best song performances
It’s Saturday morning as I finish this up, and it’s raining outside as we prepare to set out for Day 2 of ACL. Superb. I’ll have complete thoughts on everything I’ve seen once the festival is[…]
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Shows: Mandy Rowden in-store @ Waterloo Records
In a town where you can throw a guitar pick in a random direction and hit an Americana singer-songwriter trying to break through, those musicians need something to make themselves stand out. Mandy Rowden’s done[…]
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Shows: James McMurtry @ the Continental Club Gallery
After seeing James McMurtry perform live for the first time, I came away wondering if there’s ever been a better time to see him than right now. Politically inclined entertainers – whether we’re talking obnoxious[…]
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Shows: Erika Wennerstrom in-store @ Waterloo Records
Last year, I saw Erika Wennerstrom at the Continental Club and wrote about how criminally under-famous she and her longtime band, Heartless Bastards, are. There’s no real indication the needle is going to move on[…]
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Shows: Jackie Venson @ Unplugged at the Grove
The first thing you notice about Jackie Venson performing live is that she’s full of life. Pogo’ing up and down onstage, slipping huge smiles through her curled hair again and again, getting visibly overtaken by whatever her[…]
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