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Forecastle Festival, Days Two and Three
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 the works on Flickr; check back […]
Forecastle Festival, Day One
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 around all weekend, as days two […]
Andrew Bird; Lincoln Theater, Washington DC & Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
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 counted as a pilgrimage. By my […]
Guest Post: Seven Albums That Came Out in 2013 That Mike Listened To and Enjoyed the Most
[ 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, and as such was deprived of […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 11, 2013
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 of times, let alone 30+. Â Even […]
Andrew Bird, Fourth Presbyterian Church; December 10, 2013
I’ve got about an hour to tell you my thoughts on last night’s Gezellegheid shows before I get to go off and meet up with fellow erstwhile blogger Mel to go stand in line for a while. Â (These write-ups were much easier to manage when I turned Birdmas into a staycation; maybe next year.) Â Last […]