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Live Review and Photos: Built To Spill, February 22, 2012, The Glass House – Pomona, CA

Near the end of last year, Built To Spill frontman Doug Martsch announced that he had begun work on the next BtS album, and that the band would be doing a bit of touring in 2012. And while we can’t verify the first part of this, live dates for 2012 indeed began last night in [...]
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Live Review: Matthew Dear, February 22, 2012, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles – CA

The interior of Eagle Rock Center for the Arts doesn’t seem like the kind of place you’d go to a live concert. It seems more like a school cafeteria or a place where kids could do arts and crafts after class. Even with the lights turned low, a stage set up and a (great) DJ [...]
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Live Review and Photos: Sleigh Bells, February 22, 2012, Mayan Theater – Los Angeles, CA

On February 22nd in the year 2012, the biggest band in the indie/blog/music media/whatever consciousness was Sleigh Bells. The duo graced the cover of Spin Magazine, had just appeared as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and had released their second album, Reign Of Terror, to much critical praise (including here). But, like any [...]
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Live Review and Photos: Craig Finn, February 21, 2012, Troubadour – West Hollywood, CA

Photos by Philip Cosores One of the first things that you’re likely to hear about Craig Finn’s main band, The Hold Steady, is that they’re often touted as “the World’s Best Bar Band.” West Hollywood’s Troubadour is more or less a bar that happens to have a stage so it would have been the perfect [...]
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Live Review: Ryan Adams, February 17, 2012, Walt Disney Concert Hall – Los Angeles, CA

Photo by David Black Ryan Adams is talented at many things, but the one quality that makes him so good at all of these things is his ability to stretch them out beyond the point to which they need to go, but still maintaining a high level of amusement. He does this several times in [...]
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Live Review: Shigeto, February 15, 2011, Low End Theory – Los Angeles, CA

The prospect of performing at L.A.’s Low End Theory was an exciting one for Zach “Shigeto” Saginaw. A week before his Wednesday night headline, the Brooklyn-based beatmaker announced that he’d be accompanying his routine MPC set-up with segments of live drumming. With a line-up consisting of turntable-heavy DJs like The Gaslamp Killer and Snorlax, Shigeto [...]
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Live Review and Photos: Islands, February 14, 2012, Bootleg Theater – Los Angeles, CA

Photos by Philip Cosores Islands’ new album, A Sleep & A Forgetting, is quite a transformation in sound. For the most part the songs are downbeat and piano-led, unlike the big chugging guitars of their previous albums. It’s such a change that even the band themselves don’t seem to know what to do with it; [...]
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Live Review: Dr. Dog, February 13, 2012, Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR

On a rather indiscriminate night in Portland, lines formed around the corner for tickets to see Philly rockers Dr. Dog, touring in support of their new album Be the Void. And, as the over 1,800-person capacity venue neared its tipping point, Dr. Dog appeared to be hitting the milestone I’ve always hoped they’d hit. The [...]
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Live Review and Photos: Los Campesinos!, February 11, 2012, Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA

Photos by Philip Cosores “It’s a Saturday night… date night, possibly. Are there any couples in the house? This is not place for a couple, this is a pit of despair,” so said Gareth Campesinos! to the audience early on in Los Campesinos!’s headlining set at the Echoplex. Lyrically, sure, there’s plenty of despair there [...]
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Live Review and Photos: Laura Gibson and Breathe Owl Breathe, February 8, 2012, The Echo – Los Angeles, CA

Photos by Philip Cosores It’s kind of strange going to see a couple of folk acts in a space like The Echo. The room is everything you’d want in rock’n’roll venue; dark, grimy, and loud, which is not exactly what you want when you’re going to see bright, clean, and relaxed music. The challenge for [...]
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