By now, I’ve most assuredly lost count of the number of times I’ve seen Mandy Rowden perform — whether it be collections of her originals, cover sets in the chillest New Year’s Eve bar setting imaginable,[…]
Category: concert review
Shows: Austin Psych Fest day 3 takes us around the world
For someone who hasn’t left the United States for a spell — three and a half years, to be exact — catching the closing day of Austin Psych Fest on Sunday was a treat in something of[…]
ACL overview and Day 3 recap: Avoiding politics without even trying, and the best sets and songs of the weekend
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[…]
ACL Day 2 quick recap: Pink, War on Drugs and Death Cab are musical sundials; Sloppy Jane commits to the method
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[…]
ACL Day 1 quick recap: Wet Leg becomes an artistic double threat; Phoenix est très bien; and my feet get a reprieve
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.[…]
Shows: The Bad Lovers, Rattlesnake Milk, the Crack Pipes and Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs @ Hotel Vegas
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[…]