Show Review: The Handsome Family @ Tractor Tavern
Dark, Macabre, Literate, Love, Hate, Beautiful, Traditional, Original, Country, Folk, American Gothic. All of these words describe the unique music and sound of The Handsome Family.
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Show Review & Photos: Cage the Elephant & Hugo End Session
On Sunday night 107.7 The End kicked off a new year of its exclusive End Sessions, bringing a handful of fans to the station’s first-ever back-to-back session at the EMP Skychurch. British singer-songwriter Hugo kicked things off with a colorful set that included his much-buzzed about cover of Jay Z’s “99 Problems.” Indie rockers Cage […]
Show Review: Dashboard Confessional @ Neumos
Because Carrabba was celebrating Swiss Army Romance and the album is largely acoustic, pre-dating the full-band version of Dashboard, Carrabba took to the stage with no band, just his voice and his acoustic guitar. This solo acoustic show was anything but dull.
CD Review: Live It Up by Lee DeWyze
American Idol has introduced us to some amazing – and some not so amazing – vocal talent over the years. Lee Dewyze, the current American Idol, has a great raw voice and is a talented multi-instrumentalist, but the production on his latest CD, Live It Up is polished so slick that you could slip just […]
CD Review: Or, The Whale by Or, The Whale
If popularity in the music industry was actually based on the quality of music, San Francisco’s Or, The Whale would be infiltrating everyone’s iPod and conquering the FM radio waves. Unfortunately that’s not the way the industry works. The assembled by way of Craigslist seven piece, Americana ensemble builds on the promise of their debut […]