My ladyfriend and I traveled to Chicago for my 5th consecutive attendance to the Hideout Block Party in Chicago. The Hideout is the coolest bar/musical community behind a Home Depot. I didn’t get to see everything and had to leave early. I am only a man.
SATURDAY
Giant Sand (Yay)He’s much jazzier and Billy Bob Thortonlike than [...]
September 25, 2008
Categories: concert reviews . Tags: Black Mountain, Block Party, Chicago, Concert Review, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Dark Meat, Devil in a Woodpile, Giant Sand, Hideout, Honey Boy Edwards, Little Cow, Monotonix, Mucca Pazza, Neil Hamburger’s Drunken Spelling Bee, Neko Case, Plastic People of the Universe, Rhymefest, Robbie Fulks, The Jon Rauhouse Sestet, The Uglysuit, Tim Fite . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 3 Comments
I’m rushing this entry if only for my excitement for the new Walkmen album, which has surprised the hell out of me. I have a few more August buys to write about (the Best of Lynard Skynard, anyone?), but those can wait.
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul Okay, this was a legacy buy. But seriously, [...]
August 23, 2008
Categories: JG's Year in Albums, album reviews, concert reviews . Tags: Bowerbirds, Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning, Conor Oberst, David Bowie, Hot Buttered Soul, Hymns For A Dark Horse, Isaac Hayes, Low, Something for All of Us, Swimming, The French Kicks, The Walkmen, You & Me . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 2 Comments
The band (which includes me under a ridiculous pseudonym) had a unrepentant blast opening for freaking Eef Barzelay this past Thursday as the Cafe Montmartre in Madison.
Eef and company were awesome and liked how we matched up.
Special thanks to Ed Oliver who captured me losing control my chin.
Photo credit: Ed Oliver
And check out this fantastic lady…
Photo credit: [...]
August 10, 2008
Categories: Lion V. Fish, concert reviews . Tags: Cafe Montmartre, chins, Eef Barzelay, Lion V. Fish . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 3 Comments
Friday Night—Part of the “Don’t Look Back” thing, which I don’t know anything other than someone in Old Britain somehow convinces creepy old dudes to play their best or seminal (ie, not their best) album in its entirety live. One watches with grotesque curiosity at degenerating bodies flubbing their own lyrics. It was a pleasant [...]
July 22, 2008
Categories: concert reviews, good ideas turning out not-so . Tags: !!!, Animal Collective, Apples In Stereo, Atlas Sound, Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar, Bon Iver, Boris, Caribou, Cut Copy, Dancing Mud People, Dinosaur Jr, Dizzee Rascal, Don't Look Back, Elf Power, Fleet Foxes, Fuck Buttons, Icy Demons, Jarvis Cocker, Jay Reatard, King Khan and His Shrines, M. Ward, Mission of Burma, No Age, Pitchfork Music Festival, Public Enemy, Sebadoh, Spiritualized, Spoon, The Dirty Projectors, The Dodos, The Hold Steady, The Ruby Suns, Times New Viking, Titus Andronicus, Vampire Weekend . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: 8 Comments
I wrote another review. This time Jens Lekman (yay) and the Honeydrips (nay) perilously subjected themselves to my critical gaze. The bat part is totally true.
And if the review reads a little strange, be advised that the Isthmus and I are on opposite sides of the parenthetical dash issue–I use them, they take them out.
Jens defends the [...]
April 2, 2008
Categories: concert reviews . Tags: Bats in Music Venues, Jens Lekman, The Honeydrips . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: Leave a Comment
In addition to starting a blog, I’ve begun writing concert reviews for Madison’s Isthmus under a new whacky pseudonym.
I’ll pay you a dollar if you leave an agreeable comment.
Here they are:
The Walkmen (yay), White Rabbits (yay): A tour for an album that hasn’t been released comes with risk…
Ra Ra Riot (yay), The Virgins (nay), National [...]
February 10, 2008
Categories: concert reviews . Tags: Basia Bulat, Concerts, Madison, National Beekeepers' Society, Pale Young Gentlemen, Ra Ra Riot, The Virgins, The Walkmen, White Rabbits . Author: jerrygrit . Comments: Leave a Comment
Wandering Rocks
