Concert Central

Annie Lennox has refined her voice to marvelous levels of purity. Spending barely forty minutes on stage hardly does her credit, but she used the time to thoroughly dazzle the audience. There were not any true surprises in her set. She gave a nod to her new album with two back to back tracks, “Pavement [...]

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06.29.2004 Sting with Annie Lennox Tweeter Center, Mansfield, MA
wwwayrxcom (10:26:38 AM): Where to begin?
wwwayrxcom (10:26:46 AM): First off, I have the flu
sweeners (10:26:50 AM): ugh!
sweeners (10:26:56 AM): not a good start
wwwayrxcom (10:27:16 AM): Second off, my roommate drove to Mansfield because he decided to drive some girls from his work who were also going to [...]

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06.27.2004 Madonna Worcester Centrum Centre, Worcester, MA
The Reinvention Tour included four dates to its Worcester stop. We stuck with the Sunday night performance, and the real decision was to not buy tickets to another evening. It was mostly a price consideration. The tour tickets were ranging from $95 to $300. There’s something strangely appalling about [...]

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very pleasing ensemble—three guitars, sax, and drums—reminiscent of Desperado soundtrack, desert jazz, vocalist was annoyingly brash and loud (sultry would have been more suitable)—was famous in Mexico City as a youth—astonishingly humpbacked

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was really excited—thinking he was world famous but thinking he’s probably from Austin, he was very qualified, the music lacked diversity but pulled the crowd, it was the closest to a rave that I’d been as far as music, interesting lights

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undercurrent of good rumor at first SXSW, sorely disappointed, indie-catatonic vocalist with singer/songwriter lite pop tuneage, from Seattle area, possibly underproduction didn’t do justice—guitar was pleasing, unfortunately reminiscent of Songs: Ohia (in that, is my new favorite actually bad?)

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shameful repetition, new insights from MandolinWoman’s expertise: all old country covers, Redd is as respected as purported—MandolinWoman says partly because a super one who has actually endured

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