Category Archives: shows
Cass McCombs, Arbouretum @ Ottobar Saturday
Cass McCombs is dad-rock. We mean that in the best possible way. We hesitate to describe anything we like as dad-rock, but when your latest record is interspersed with a four year old playing a left-wing version of ‘Kids Say the Darndest Things’ you’ve crossed at least a little into dad-rock territory. But perhaps dad-rock […]
Power Up Remington Benefit Show @ Liam Flynn’s Saturday
Hop Along @ MICA Tonight
When we were in Nashville this Summer, poking around in all the shrines to country music we noticed a funny little phrase that kept popping up on plaques and descriptions over and over again: “old time family band.” Which is what it sounds like- you have a bunch of kids and teach each one a […]
Chelsea Light Moving @ Ottobar Tonight
Two years ago we wrote a snarky little blog post about Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon getting divorced. In it, we said we were actually pretty happy about it because it almost surely meant the end of Sonic Youth. Not to take anything away from SY, but all good things must come to an end […]