Tweet My write-ups and selected photos from days two and three of the Forecastle Festival are now up at the CHIRPRadio blog! Give it to read to check out coverage of acts including Lucius, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Boy & Bear, Mount Moriah, and others. A photo gallery is in…
Forecastle Festival, Day One
Tweet I’m in Louisville, Kentucky again this weekend for my favorite summer festival, Forecastle. This year, I have the great pleasure of covering it for CHIRP Radio, so make your way over to their blog to check out some photos and read my take on day one. Stick…
Andrew Bird; Lincoln Theater, Washington DC & Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Tweet So it seems like every year I do one of these – a semi-vacation to some other random city to see Andrew Bird. It’s a bit like a pilgrimage, if catching a couple of concerts and then spending a few days pretending that I live somewhere else can be…
Guest Post: Seven Albums That Came Out in 2013 That Mike Listened To and Enjoyed the Most
Tweet [ As per our annual tradition around here, my friend Mike has stopped by to share some of his favorite albums of 2013 with us. Enjoy! -S ] This was a bizarre year for me. I had to buy a new car and as such could not go to Lollapalooza,…
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 11, 2013
Tweet People occasionally ask me how I can sit through four concerts from the same artist four nights in a row, or more generally, how there is any artist, anywhere, in any genre, who it’s possible to love so much that I would want to see more than a handful…
Andrew Bird – Gezelligheid 2013 – Historical Lagniappe
Tweet There is a thing that Andrew Bird does, and it is a thing that Andrew Bird has done for a long time, and that thing is covering songs that in their original form might sound strange to our ears. While it’s the kind of thing I could (and have)…