Seven Kinds of Wonderful: An Evening with The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Amazing. Spectacular. Perfect. It is impossible to articulate what happened last weekend. No one word can truly describe the whole experience. Seeing The Brian Jonestown Massacre play at Webster Hall...
View ArticleSongs and Stories with Dirty Three
I’m standing in the front row at Neumos, a mid-size music venue on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, wondering why there’s a mic stand on stage. It’s an object that most concert-goers take for granted, marking...
View ArticlePitchfork Music Festival Paris 2012 Wrap-up
The Pitchfork music festival in Paris took place at La Grande Halle nestled on the edge of the Parc de la Villette. Guiding audiences to the festival, the concert hall’s large neon letters bathed the...
View ArticleFOTOS: Low Fat Getting High, Ovlov, Geronimo!, Advaeta, and The Hot Flood
On Friday, April 12 in a small venue on Varet Street in Brooklyn, New York, better known as Big Snow Buffalo Lodge, Exploding in Sound hosted a showcase of loud and thumping sets from Low Fat Getting...
View ArticleFOTOS: Turnip King, Grand Resort, Sun Club, The Doozies and Girl Toy
On Friday, April 26 at Brooklyn, New York’s Big Snow Buffalo Lodge, the crowd’s electric energy through the night gave way to mosh pits. As Girl Toy, Washington D.C.’s The Doozies, Annapolis’ Sun Club,...
View ArticlePrimavera Sound 2013 Review
A lot had changed for the 13th edition of Primavera Sound, most notably that the festival was no longer “San Miguel Primavera Sound,” but “Heineken Primavera Sound.” The difference is relevant, because...
View ArticleFOTOS: Boytoy, Rathborne and Roman
After an overcast day over Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a crowd gathers at the Knitting Factory on July 13. First on stage is ROMAN, armed only with a laptop connected to a pedal board, an electric guitar...
View ArticleThe Music Tapes’ Traveling Imaginary, In Real Life
The Traveling Imaginary came to New York City for a few nights in September and for a few hours the third story of a chapel became a gateway to another world. A place somewhere in the imagination of...
View ArticleTindersticks, Live in London
The last time I saw Tindersticks, on their small tour promoting their collected soundtracks (they have composed six original scores) for French auteur Claire Denis, a bout of laryngitis resulted in...
View ArticleFOTOS: Indian Rebound, Vundabar, Phone Home, Joes
The balcony is vacant, the door tightly shut to stave off winter’s air. On this particular night, Shea Stadium looks like just another nondescript building in the row of warehouses in Brooklyn’s...
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