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Frightened Rabbit 5-19-10

Fillmore Auditorium · San Francisco, CA

  BY JUD COST   Frightened Rabbit, a blood-stirring Scots rock band that, like most of its predecessors over the past 30 years, somehow captures the phantom sound of lost battalio more...

Nelsonville Music Festival 5-15 & 5-16-10

Nelsonville Fest · Nelsonville, OH

  BY STEVEN ROSEN   The Nelsonville Music Festival in rural, hilly southeast Ohio isn't one of the summer's big ones (though it's growing; this year it stretched over two days, May more...

Pearl Jam 5-13-10

Jiffy Lube Live · Bristow, VA

  BY ROBERT FULTON   The contrast could not have been more evident at Pearl Jam's May 13 show at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, VA, 40 miles outside of Washington, D.C. For more than more...

Los Campesinos! 5-7-10

Regency Ballroom · San Francisco, CA

BY JUD COST   Los Campesinos!, an army of eight with enough raw energy for an entire company of royal marines, breezed into San Francisco as soon as the Icelandic behemoth subsided suf more...

My Morning Jacket + Preservation Hall Jazz Band 4-30-10

Koka Booth Amphitheatre · Cary, NC

    TEXT & PHOTOS BY ANDY TENNILLE   At first blush, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and My Morning Jacket might seem like strange bedfellows.   One is a genre- more...

Stooges + New York Dolls 1973-74

Bimbo's 365 + New Matrix · San Francisco, CA

  BY JUD COST   The appearance this week of the hairdryer-in-the-bath-tub remastered/expanded edition of Raw Power by Iggy & the Stooges (Columbia/Legacy; reviewed at Blurt her more...

The Tallest Man on Earth + Nurses 4-23-10

Black Cat · Washington, D.C.

  BY ROXANA HADADI / PHOTOS BY ADAM FRIED   The Internet is a peculiar thing. About 10 months ago, when The Tallest Man on Earth a.k.a. Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson o more...

OK GO + Earl Greyhound 4-23-10

The Mod Club · Toronto, ON

BY APRIL S. ENGRAM   The lovely Toronto night was capped by the carefree feel within the sold out venue, The Mod Club. No photo pit was erected distancing the audience from the stage, no more...

The Morning Benders 4-22-10

Mercury Lounge · New York, NY

  BY ZACHARY HERRMANN   "It's good to be home", The Morning Benders' front man Chris Chu announced to a young, sweaty sold out crowd.  Yes, he said "home". Although the band o more...

Loomis & the Lust 4-21-10

12th & Porter · Nashville, TN

  BY STEVE MORLEY   It could have been any night in downtown Nashville. In a city where skilled, experienced musicians are stockpiled like so many cans of sardines in the Second more...


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