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Van Dyke Parks 2-12-10
Swedish American Hall · San Francisco, CA
BY JUD COST Van Dyke Parks sneaked into San Francisco Friday night with little fanfare for a rare live performance and still managed to fill every folding chair in the cozy S more...
The Delta Spirit 2-1 & 2-8-10
Middle East Upstairs · Cambridge, MA
BY WYNDHAM LEWIS The Delta Spirit is one of those bands that seeps into your consciousness. Their debut release Ode To Sunshine arrived in early fall 2007 to universall more...
Editors + The Antlers 2/16/10
Phoenix Concert Theatre · Toronto, ON
BY APRIL S. ENGRAM Unsurprisingly, the Editors put on an excellent performance. Already familiar with their bombastic concerts, a bit of hesitance lingered in my mind on ho more...
Laura Veirs + Old Believers + Led to the Sea 2-14-10
The Iron Horse · Northampton, MA
BY JENNIFER KELLY Last December in an interview with BLURT, Laura Veirs said that she had to release the very summery July Flames, her seventh and latest album, in January "for more...
Of Montreal 1-28-10
9:30 Club · Washington, DC
BY MATT SIBLO / PHOTOS BY KYLE GUSTAFSON One band's ostentatious is another's austerity. Such was the case with Of Montreal's performance at the 9:30 club Thursday night, jus more...
Of Montreal + James Husbands 1-27-10
Paradise Rock Club · Boston, MA
BY WYNDHAM LEWIS The toughest thing about reviewing an Of Montreal performance is not describing the psychedelic pop nugget-ry they mine, or the theatricality they have cons more...
Alejandro Escovedo 1-15-10
Orange Peel · Asheville, NC
BY JASON BUGG On Friday, January 15th at Asheville NC's The Orange Peel Texas rocker Alejandro Escovedo took the stage to the mournful sounds of George Jones' "He Stopped Lov more...
Kris Kristofferson 1-13-10
Heritage Theatre · Campbell, CA
BY JUD COST Watching Jeff Bridges play down-and-out country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart one day, then going to see Country Music Hall of Fame member Kris Kristofferson more...
Dick Dale 12-20-09
Moe's Alley · Santa Cruz, CA
BY JUD COST A shingle-rattling power chord that rearranged some of the bottles behind the bar at Moe's Alley, erupted from the dressing room at the side of the stage, st more...
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs 12-12-09
The M-Room · Philadelphia, PA
BY ZACHARY HERRMANN It's easy to look (and sound) like the professional outfit of the night when the band before yours calls themselves "Tough Shits". Not to the rag on that ra more...











