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Artists: Caribou
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 6, 2007
The supposedly time-traveling Caribou will certainly have noticed one thing on their trip through the past playing in the present: the wonders of numbers. While frontman Dan Snaith, with his Ph. D. in Mathematics from London’s Imperial College has undoubtedly ceased to care about such mundane things […]
Artists: Akron/Family
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: September 26, 2007
Yet another brilliant band that I was lucky enough to have witnessed at that amazing Katrina Benefit so many years ago, the Akron/Family were both similar and very different from my hazy memories of that night. Similar in their hug-your-fellow-man-and-sing-along-with-us hippie-esque warm-spiritedness and flashes of freak-folkish electric […]
Artist: Sons and Daughters
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: April 4, 2007
“Scotland Rocks NY!” That was the billing for the night. Thankfully, we missed most of the openers and the one we did hear was terrible. But Sons and Daughters put on a better show than I had expected. There was a strong Pretty Girls vibe […]
Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
Date: September 14, 2006
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Artist: Mates of State
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: April 12, 2006
After being blown away by these guys the last time, I managed to drag Rob and Sheila out to the show this time. Not really much to say, except that this show rocked even harder than the last time because they performed stuff from their […]
Artists: The Books, Death Vessel, Jose Gonzalez
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: March 24, 2006
Holy shit I think that as a whole show, this one might take the cake for ‘best evening of music, ever’. I heard a few tracks by each of the openers online and decided that they were worth checking out–and indeed they […]
Artists: Electric Six, She Wants Revenge
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: February 12, 2006
There’s a fair amount of snow/sludge on the ground, and to be honest, I’m not a big fan of Electric Six. But upon repeated good recommendations from Alex, I drag myself out to the Bowery to catch them and their opener She Wants […]
Artist: Prefuse 73 & Icy Demons
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: December 1, 2005
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Artist: Ambulance LTD
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 27, 2005
Wow these guys looked and sounded really tired from the git go. Apparently, this was their last show on this tour, and they were all happy to be back in NY. They did a fairly ho-hum run of most of their album, and that was that.
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Artist: The Rapture
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 21, 2005
This show was strangely a little disappointing, and I have a hard time figuring out why. The performance was technically a little off, but not too bad; the excitement was definitely there (probably the highest I’d seen at any show); there was a sufficient amount of […]
Artist: Mates of State
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 20, 2005
My first show where the main singers were a husband-wife duo–and boy did it add a lot! Almost as exciting as their music (which was perfectly executed live) was watching the two of them exchange glances of love (I presume) throughout the show. The passion […]
Artist: The Perceptionists
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 8, 2005
My first show in New York with some company (Rob & Sheila)–I’m glad they came because there were many openers and none that great. The first were this trio, front-man rapper, female-backup-vocalist, turntablist. They had some good beats (nothing live though), the main rapper sucked, and […]
Artists: Sufjan Stevens, Akron/Family, Adam Green
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 3, 2005
Before I completely forget this great concert, I’m gonna fill in some quick notes:Akron/Family: An amazing show by these 4 guys (are they actually a family?). One of them looked like he was possessed or speaking in tongues. Their part of the show […]