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Paul McCartney + Kaiser Chiefs + Zutons 6-1-08

Anfield Stadium · Liverpool, England

    By GILLIAN G. GAAR     Five years to the day that Paul McCartney had last performed in his hometown of Liverpool, he returned to the kind of welcome that might await a more...

Bruce Springsteen 5-22-08

RDS Arena · Dublin, Ireland

By JOSE MARTINEZ   Seeing a stadium rock show in Dublin is like no other concert-going experience. Sure, we all know the stories of how the Irish love to drink, but upon arriving at RDS Ar more...

Willie Nelson 5-16-08

Paris Le Grand Rex · Paris, France

  BY JOSE MARTINEZ   Standing onstage in front of an oversized Texas flag with his trademark braids hidden under his black hat, you’d swear you were in Anywhere, USA watching c more...

Bruce Springsteen 3-7-08

HSBC Arena · Buffalo, NY

  By Rev. Keith Gordon   There's just one thing that you need to know about Bruce Springsteen: that after forty years in the trenches, he still plays like it matters. That when he hit more...

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals 3-6-08

Orange Peel · Asheville, NC

    By Fred Mills   Grace Potter bursts into the dressing room area of the Orange Peel like a woman on fire—if she were a ‘toon, there would be a small dust storm tr more...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 3-6-08

Plug Awards, Terminal 5 · NYC, NY

    By A.D. Amorosi   You had to get past the fact that the PLUG Independent Music Awards was there to “honor the independent music community and its fans who now represen more...

Ra Ra Riot 3-3-08

Bug Jar · Rochester, NY

  By April S. Engram   Syracuse band Ra Ra Riot faced a tumultuous 2007 upon the unexpected death of their drummer John Pike (whom Riot refers to as their “lifelong inspiration& more...

Suttree & Greg Cartwright 2-22-08

Grey Eagle · Asheville, NC

     By Fred Mills   Sometimes, just sometimes, you catch a band at precisely that early point in its career when forces both internal and external have come together to pr more...

Vampire Weekend 2-6-08

The Rock and Roll Hotel · Washington, DC

    By Roxana Hadadi   Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? Vampire Weekend surely doesn’t. The Columbia graduates have left grammar behind and instead moved on to bigg more...

Joanna Newsom 2-1-08

Brooklyn Academy of Music · Brooklyn, NY

      By Jason Gross   If anything, folkie singer/harpist Joanna Newsom's recent live shows with strings answer the question of whether her new music (featuring 10-15 minu more...


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