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Artist: UNKLE
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: October 18, 2007
This is a public sevice announcement. Do not, under any circumstances, go to see UNKLE live. No matter how much the temptation of the Pitchfork 9.8 Psyence Fiction review attracts you, realize that the 9.8 belongs more to the arrogant but incredibly talented DJ Shadow than the […]
Artists: Holy Fuck, Cornelius
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: May 7, 2007
During my summer at Microsoft Research (working on this), I remember one Monday afternoon frantically listening to fragments of over 100 songs in about 15 minutes, trying to choose a song to bring into the summer’s first “play-and-tell.” Organized by a recent new-hire but populated […]
Artists: Zero 7, Sia, Jose Gonzalez
Venue: Webster Hall, New York, NY
Date: September 15, 2006
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Artist: The Walkmen
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: May 24, 2006
My last show for a while started off rather disappointingly. The opener was Mazarin (explicitly stated as being “of Philadelphia” — who knows where the one is from, or why neither has changed their name). In any case, their sound was a little too ordinary (with […]
Artist: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: February 18, 2006
If this was a record review, then I would feel a great need to reference Jesus and Mary Chain in every other sentence, just like every other site, but fortunately, this is just a live review and so I don’t have to (which […]
Artist: Broken Social Scene
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: January 26, 2006
The first show of the new year: a good omen for the rest of it. Billed as “an evening with Broken Social Scene”, there were no openers. Not that one was really needed, considering that BSS consists of just about a million Canadian rockers of […]
Artist: Animal Collective
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: November 20, 2005
I walk in as the opening band is starting. It’s two dudes dressed in shiny clothes behind two turntables and a microphone. They put on this decent beat, and start saying “yeah, uh-huh, yeah” while they’re bobbing their heads.Cut to thirty minutes later: I’m gouging my […]
Artists: Caribou, Super Furry Animals
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: November 5, 2005
We (Rob and I) got there just a little late, as Caribou was already into their acts. Going through a fairly large setlist (given that they were just the opener), they were fucking amazing. Two drumsets, loads of electronics and other percussion, and a […]
Artist: The Go! Team
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: November 2, 2005
Again, one of those mysterious concerts were everything goes right, and somehow, something’s wrong. All very high-energy renditions of the album, as well as some not on the album. I think the big surprise for me was the large size of the group, some 10 […]
Artist: Dresden Dolls
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: October 28, 2005
THIS is the way a show should be. Lots of theatrical playing, an acrobatic dancer on two tightropes hanging from the ceiling above the crowd, a quick Pantera live cover on acoustic guitar, and a mini-orchestra conducted by a mad surgeon/psycho killer with enough blood on […]
Artist: Royksopp
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: September 21, 2005
Excited to see this duo live after listening to their new album nonstop for the past few days, I was appropriately happy after the concert. While nothing special, it was simply a good, mindless, enjoyable concert. As befitting their music, the venue was a large dance hall, […]