Category Archives: Concerts

Chuck Berry, Live at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room in St. Louis, May 13, 2009

By Todd | Published: May 22, 2009
I was shocked mostly by the size of his hands. They looked like baseball mitts — old, leathery, well-worn. It seemed inconceivable that they would fit through his shirt sleeves, let alone exercise the finesse required to move up and down the neck of his lacquered Gibson. And yet there they were, still playing the [...]
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Leonard Cohen at the Fox Theatre, May 9, 2009

By Scotter | Published: May 20, 2009
A review of Leonard Cohen in Detroit, Fox Theatre, May 9, 2009
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Tonight at Magic Stick, Detroit: The Dears, Great Northern

By Scotter | Published: May 11, 2009
A good show at the Magic Stick Monday night. Quebeqois The Dears’ headline. Their Missiles ended up on a lot of year-end lists last year, but I’ve only just gotten into the album. After seeing Leonard Cohen on Saturday (it was great–review to come!) this will be my second night in three nights spent with French-Canadians. I [...]
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Fire in the Eye! A Review of Mastodon in Chicago, April 30th, 2009

By Andrew | Published: May 3, 2009
Review by Andrew Mastodon has evolved oddly.  They began in 2000 as a death metal/hardcore/math hybrid with a healthy Southern rock influence and have since developed into a progressive metal band that has replaced its ample heaviness with psychedelic groove, Ozzy-esque vocals, and fantastical album concepts.  Many fans who loved their first album Remission (which still sounds [...]
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New Bones, New Discs

By Todd | Published: April 20, 2009
I’m no economist by any means, but when I can’t even squeeze over to the used bin without artfully dodging a slow-moving herd of cash-flush consumers, I’m guessing business is doing fairly well. Record Store Day in St. Louis was, by my entirely non-scientific analysis, a resounding success. Every single record store I went to [...]
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Beach House at the Billiken Club, St. Louis, April 3, 2009

By Todd | Published: April 4, 2009
After writing the show preview and interviewing Victoria Legrand for the Riverfront Times, I’m a little worn out on typing about Beach House. But I will say that their live show was honestly much better than I anticipated it to be. While the tinny drum machines they use on record sound as if their sole [...]
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Morrissey at Michigan Theatre, March 31, 2009

By Scotter | Published: April 1, 2009
Is it wrong that I screamed when Morrissey opened with “This Charming Man”? For the next 30 seconds, I felt terribly self-conscious. I briefly felt like one of those uncouth screaming girls I’ve seen so many times in black and white in old video of The Beatles playing the Ed Sullivan show for the first [...]
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