Concert Central

fantastic, their sound had a roundness and polish that you don’t often hear in live music, lots of energy, diversity of sounds revolving around hopped-up rock country, from garage to psychedelia, very energetic show with lots of appealing personalities, I think there were two exchanging vocalist duty, stilly-moustached keyboard player, and a guitar player who [...]

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unassuming look but quite good, Rockboy pointed out that you don’t often see a female on lead guitar (usually it’s bass) and she was darling and pouty too, the rest were baseball capped average joes but they enthusiastically played noise-pop, bit of a shoegazer sound

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though seem to just be starting out they were really fantastic which I hope they know, the definition of “tight,” self-contained NOFX style punk with some Dead Milkmen (per Rockboy), the lead singer had just the right amount of passion and sincerity and the bass player was oddly and weirdly intent maybe as bass players [...]

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pop pop pop rock, then picked it up a little to “rock” as they said but it was more like pop pop rock then, I liked the lesser pop version but overall they were quite good, 60s jangly pop with psychedelic edges, I suspect that the gray-hair member of the band is behind their sound rather than the cutesy-voiced singer but who knows

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Friend3 and Friend2’s band of four months – they both sing though Friend2 is more Mountain Goats while Friend3 is dramatic rock, Friend1’s ex-roommate is on trumpet, “burner” on incongruent V-shaped guitar, long curly hair on drums, band includes some three other members-mostly brass, so as the vocals/songwriters varied did the music, from witty-lyric silly-voice [...]

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young whippersnappers with too little cred (in music or life) to be as cocky as they were in their silly sunglasses and tidy little mohawks, had a huge college-hippie crowd, they do mostly covers (I believe) of bluegrass/country, grudgingly acknowledged that they sounded the tiniest bit like O’Death but don’t take that too seriously

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friends of Red Leaves (names may be misspelled), daters who looked nearly exactly alike, reminded me of Yo La Tengo in terms of sound and the insufferable attitude (particularly the girl), she played guitar, keyboard, etc. and he played guitar, tambourine, etc. – something about her atonal voice reminded me of The Slits – they were stripped down but I quite liked them

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I Love Margaret Cho. She comes across as very down to earth, she’s your best friend. Even standing on stage in front of hundreds of people, she managed to make the show seem like a conversation in your living room. Granted, you’re talking about her menstrual cycle, sex, penises, gay cruises, fag hags, [...]

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Liam Sullivan is a one-note comedian whose fame has spread thanks to YouTube vids of him dressed as a blond named Kelly. Liam took the opening spot on Margaret Cho’s Beautiful stand-up tour, performing first as a buxom hardcore lesbian named Susan. Then it cut to video segments (I think these are the [...]

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pop punk verging on emo, liked them but they’re weird—kept suspecting they’re a Christian band, three are siblings, lead singer is very attractive clean girl who is a natural performer, she wore hot shorts, they’re like the band your high school friends put together if you’re a girl

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