Posted 11/21/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Crush-Worthy Sondre Lerche Charms, Offers Polaroid Portraits at Show
Sylvie Lewis came onstage for some duets, but sensing the fandom in the room, she opted at times to simply remain silent.
Posted 11/14/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
AC/DC Savage Madison Square Garden With Panting Rock Fury
Guitarist Young spent five minutes standing alone on top of a platform built over the drum set, hammering away with such speed and volume that his playing was essentially incomprehensible to mortal ears.
Posted 11/04/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Keren Ann Sings Softly in a Language You Don’t Understand
The chanteuse broke from her role as jazz-folk ingénue only once, to rib the crowd.
Posted 10/30/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Jazzman McCoy Tyner Recalls Times With Coltrane, Hits the Keys
By age 18, Tyner was touring coast to coast in John Coltrane's station wagon.
See David Banner Swing From the Rafters at Big Rap Show
Banner hung from the rails of the balcony, looming 40 feet above the crowd, but thankfully did not attempt to reenact the finale of Pearl Jam's "Evenflow" video.
Posted 10/27/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Vivian Girls and Woods Make for Nice CMJ Surprise
It was the type of indie-rock grab bag where headliners Vivian Girls have, relatively speaking, something like star power.
Posted 10/27/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Jay Reatard Forcibly Removes Fans From — and Forcibly Invites Them to — Stage
Jay Reatard betrayed no hint of CMJ fatigue, giving his typical tornado of a performance.
Posted 10/24/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
The Dears, CMJ’s Most Stoic Band But for the Butt Wiggle
A George Michael–esque ass wiggle was the closest thing to banter that the Dears front man Murray Lightburn indulged in at last night's show.
Slideshow: The Ladies and Men of Lights and Ex Reverie, True CMJ Highlights
The bands actually represented a vital indie subcurrent rather than whatever it is magazines are telling us to listen to.
Posted 10/22/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Go-Go a No-Go at Mark Ronson’s CMJ Showcase Featuring Wale
Fans cheered, though, as Wale encouraged Sarah Palin to "go back to your igloo."
Posted 10/22/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Deerhoof Top Off Night O’ Noise
Towering, aw-shucks drummer Greg Saunier and travel-size vocalist-bassist Satomi Matsuzaki played their highly listenable skronk.
Chuck Klosterman, Robert Christgau, Rob Sheffield: Rock-Geek Slideshow!
Uh-oh — you just nerdgasmed at work!
Posted 10/20/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Not Waving But Drowning Play What Is Perhaps the Nuttiest Loft Show We’ve Ever Seen
All that was missing was a fetus preserved in a jar, although there might've been one of those in the bedroom.
Posted 10/20/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Lindsey Buckingham Tears Up, Plays Guitar With One Hand
Wearing a tight, black leather jacket last night at the Nokia, he resembled a louche Roman oracle.
Posted 10/17/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Antony and the Johnsons Transcend Death, Gender, and Bad Breakups at the Apollo
The surprise guest at last night's Antony and the Johnsons full-orchestra concert at the Apollo? Not a Wainwright, Björk, Lou Reed, or a homeless performance artist.
Slideshow: F*cked Up Play Twelve Hours Straight With J. Mascis, Vampire Weekend, and Many Others!
"This is going to be the best-slash-worst-slash-most-entertaining F*cked Up show ever," announced FU front man Father Damian, a.k.a. Pink Eye.
Posted 10/13/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Prince Gets Intimate With a Couple Hundred People
Prince, forever enshrined, should by all rights transform any setting into a purple, velvet-y boudoir — and he did!
Posted 10/08/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Okkervil River and Crooked Fingers Deeply Gratify, Roundly Mock Indie Types
"Buy it or we'll slit your throat," threatened Crooked Fingers front man Eric Bachmann at Webster Hall last night, plugging his band's new album.
Posted 10/08/08 in Vulture
Last Night's Gig
Obama Fund-raiser Brings ‘Limeys’ Franz Ferdinand to Tiny Venue
The mood at Barack Rock was more relaxed and celebratory than the tenor of the hard-fought campaign would lead anyone to believe!
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