Archive for the Concert Reviews Category
Posted on August 27, 2010 by admin
“The Burning” is a concert movie about Scottish band Mogwai and its currently screening all over North America. The Scottish band, known for their unparalleled live shows, are releasing today their long-awaited live album Special Moves and concert film “Burning.” Directed by Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnec (REM: Supernatural Superserious; La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows), [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on August 7, 2010 by admin
Tonight’s show at the Middle East brought together a fairly diverse line-up – an instrumental/post-rock band from Chicago, hardcore band from Massachusetts and sludgy/noisy group from Japan named after Melvins song. So how did the three of them sounded? Read on…. Russian Circles – What started out as a rather standard post-rock set eventually turned [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on April 20, 2010 by admin
To be honest, I had very low expectations for this show, given that few people were there in the very beginning. However, by the end of the night, it all changed and huge credit should go to Trans AM who did an amazing set. The supporting bands were also good and they are: Jonas Reinhardt [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on April 11, 2010 by admin
Its not often that you get a completely unknown band as an opener and they turn out to be good. Well, this night was different… Twin Sister (MySpace)- A band from that New York that I never heard of before, but they were quite good. With female vocals that remind me slightly of Mazzy Star’s [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 25, 2009 by admin
Melt-Banana are a notoriously weird Japanese band fronted by a female vocalist named Yasuko. She sounds much like a mad cartoon character on the band’s records – spitting or barking out words in a high-pitched tone. Band’s music contains elements of punk, electronic music, grunge and noise (although they sound nothing like Atari Teenage Riot) [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on November 15, 2009 by admin
A chance to reunited Lizard was, in many ways, a dream that came true – I wasn’t living in US during the band’s original run and since the band broke up in 1999, it seemed like there was a slim chance that they will get together or release any new records. This year, however, brought [...]
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