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Boris with Torche - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Friday, July 11, 2008
22 July 2008Boris and Torche leave a pile of rubble and tattered eardrums.
Elliot Levin Trio - Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) – Tuesday, July 15, 2008
16 July 2008Levin, a grizzled veteran by now, has come to a distinctive style that, while certainly inspired by his predecessors’ work, is never obviously derivative of anyone in particular. Nor does it stand in one place; Levin is just as likely to play a melodic phrase as to unleash flying flurries of evolving patterns arpeggiated and/or scalar or soar into the altissimo register of his tenor in ecstatic exultation.
Jay Reatard with Dark Horse and the Carousels and The Tough Shits - Johnny Brenda's (Philadelphia, PA) - Monday, July 14, 2008
15 July 2008I never got to see BAD BRAINS or D.O.A. in their prime, but this must be similar.
Sonic Youth with The Feelies - Battery Park (New York) - Friday, July 4, 2008
15 July 2008Playing all of Daydream Nation last year must have really sunk in as SONIC YOUTH played nearly a third of that amazing record.
Devo with Tom Tom Club - Bank of America Pavilion (Boston, MA) - Friday, June 27, 2008
14 July 2008The day the nerds won.
Devo with The School of Rock All-Stars and The Hold Steady - Festival Pier (Philadelphia, PA) - Saturday, June 28, 2008
6 July 2008After DEVO got the ubiquitous “Whip It” out of the way early on, then we really got the good stuff.
Polvo with Birds of Avalon and New Radiant Storm King - The Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Friday, June 20, 2008
6 July 2008Polvo shake off the dust and return to form.
Mission of Burma with Versus - First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, PA) - Friday, June 27, 2008
3 July 2008VERSUS was a reminder that the marriage of distortion and noise with super sweet melodies and quiet/loud dynamics will never go out of style.
Rob Dickinson @ World Cafe Live (Philadelphia, PA) - Wednesday, June 25, 2008
26 June 2008A ROB DICKINSON show wouldn’t be complete with at least a few dips into the Catherine Wheel catalog.
R.E.M. with Modest Mouse and The National - Mann Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia, PA) - Wednesday, June 18, 2008 -
23 June 2008Thankfully R.E.M. were able to translate the energy of their new album Accelerate onto the stage.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of May 4
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)
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Sloan – _Parallel Play _ (Yep Roc)
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The Replacements – deluxe reissues of their first four LPs (Twin/Tone/Ryko/Rhino)
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Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)
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Willie Nelson – One Hell of a Ride box set (Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Black Watch – Icing the Snow Queen (Eskimo)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Libertines – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Libertines Music)
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The Wedding Present – El Rey (Manifesto)