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Showing posts with label Live Music Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Live Music Review. Show all posts
Monday, December 8, 2025

The Hives: Stubb's Amphitheater: September 8, 2025

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I have been a failure at reviewing some of the live shows I went to around this year's ACL, I think I got behind on the preparation for ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Queens of the Stone Age: ACL Taping: November 18, 2025

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This was a weird one.  If you have followed along here, then you know that I freaking love the QOTSA.  Heavy and hard while still remaining ...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Robert Earl Keen: ACL Live at the Moody Theater: 12/18/24

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I literally told someone the other day that I had no shows coming up, and here I am on a three show bender.   Before I talk about this parti...

Les Savy Fav: Mohawk: 12/14/24

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This was an entirely unexpected show.  A friend from out of town pinged me on Saturday morning with the offer of a free ticket.  In a strang...

Paerish: Spiderhouse Ballroom: 12/11/24

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I have been waiting to see these dudes for almost a decade.  Many years ago, a baseball writer who I followed sent out a newsletter/e-mail t...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Pearl Jam: Moody Center: September 18, 2023 and September 19, 2023

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When one of your favorite bands ever is coming to town, you gotta make it happen, right?  Night one of this two-night stand in Austin was so...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The Beths - Expert in a Dying Field / The Beths - March 10, 2023 - Scoot Inn

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If you read my blog regularly - thanks to you wonderful few! - then you know that I rarely take the time to write a post that is solely abou...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Briscoe: C-Boys Heart & Soul: August 2022

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Briscoe is a neat little band - formed in part by two dudes who met at the same summer camp where I went approximately 3 million years ago. ...

Dinosaur Jr.: Moody Theater: September 18, 2022

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This show was a damn long time coming.  I don’t even remember when I bought the tickets, but it must have been sometime in 2019.  COVID came...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Robert Earl Keen: Gruene Hall: August 18, 2022

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The news of Robert Earl Keen's retirement hit me in a tough spot.  I know that he is considerably older than I am, but still, in my head...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Turnstile: Stubb's Amphitheater: May 6, 2022

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I was really looking forward to this show, and for the most part it provided everything I needed from it.  If you don't know Turnstile, ...

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats: Moody Amphitheater: April 30, 2022

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This show was good.  But I had a very bad attitude about it the entire time.  I can explain. Last October, when shows were being announced f...

My Morning Jacket: Moody Amphitheater: April 29, 2022

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My good Lord.  What an amazing show.  I mean it, this was one of those transcendent feeling moments of musical bliss that left me floating o...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Chvrches: ACL Live: November 10, 2021

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If I see more shows like this, Chvrches may become an actual favorite band.  Really great, high energy show. The funny thing that my wife ob...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

The Black Crowes: August 15, 2021: Germania Amphitheater

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You can never go back, right?  Someone said that, and I should have paid attention. I saw the Black Crowes play a supremely awesome show bac...

Counting Crows: September 15, 2021: Moody Ampitheater

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I think there is a lesson I should learn about going back to try to relive your past.  It's just never going to be as good as you want i...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Yola: Scoot Inn: February 8, 2020

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Fantastic show. Yola came to ACL last year, but I wasn't able to make the schedule work to go over there and catch her set.  But her...

Gary Clark Jr with the Dixie Chicks: ACL Live: February 6, 2020

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Man.  This was some false advertising bullshit. If you were to see advertising that said "PROCLAIM JUSTICE PRESENTS VOICES FOR JUSTI...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Black Keys: Erwin Center: November 13, 2019

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I'm a sucker for the Black Keys.  I, maybe foolishly, invited the wife to come along to this one, thinking that they are a relatively be...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Helmet: The Mohawk: November 2, 2019

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Somewhat hilariously, I bought my tickets to go see this show like 30 seconds after they went on sale, back in June.  I set a calendar remin...