live shows Archive
13 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 4 – The dB’s
In one sense, the Long View Center is an ideal venue to catch a show: unobstructed lines of sight, comfortable seats, and – best of all – a building purpose-built […]
12 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 3 – Field Report, Azure Ray
I had hoped to catch a few minutes of Yo La Tengo‘s 11:30 set at Memorial Auditorium, but (a) that venue was in the wrong direction and (b) The dB‘s […]
11 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 2 – The Jesus and Mary Chain
A bit after 9pm, The Jesus and Mary Chain took the stage. Though I bought Psychocandy on vinyl upon its original release (1985), this was another band I had never […]
10 Sep 2012
Concert Review: Hopscotch Festival, Part 1 – Zammuto, Built to Spill
The Hopscotch Festival was a three-day event (September 6-8, 2012), but my schedule only allowed me to make a single-day trip to the festival in Raleigh, NC. I made the […]
30 Jul 2012
Concert Review: Papa Grows Funk – Asheville NC July 27 2012
Live performance and studio output are two wildly different things. Some bands are adept at crafting carefully-put-together studio albums, but when they take to the stage, they’re lifeless and stiff […]
05 Jul 2012
Concert Review: Delicate Steve
A lot of what passes these days for new and cutting-edge (i.e. “indie”) music has among its hallmarks a breathy, somewhat emasculated vibe. As I like to say, it Does. […]
05 Jul 2012
Concert Review: Yellow Ostrich
If you’re the sort of person who sits around pondering odd musical juxtapositions, one of the unlikely combinations you might dream up could be: What would it sound like if […]
10 May 2012
Event Review: Music Video Asheville
I’ve just returned from the 5th annual Music Video Asheville event, held at Cinebarre. The organizers – music publicist and event planner Erin Scholze (a nine-year veteran organizer of Asheville’s […]
22 Mar 2012
Concert Review: Thomas Dolby at The Handlebar, Greenville SC (21 March 2012)
I wasn’t completely sure what to expect from a Thomas Dolby concert. I knew he’d avoid dated 80’s kitschy shtick; when I interviewed him a year ago, he memorably told […]
25 Nov 2011
Concert Review: The Miles Davis Experience 1949-1959
Miles Davis’ work passed through a number of phases; the characteristics common to all his musical eras were his uncompromising attitude toward composition, arrangement and performance, and his commitment to […]