Dec
15
2010
This year I made the big move from Lubbock to Austin, and the transformation has done wonders for my live music fix. I should have been writing down all the awesome bands I saw this year (and the years before, for that matter) but alas, hindsight, she is 20/20 once again. I think this post covers the highlights more or less, however. There’s plenty of great live music I saw this year that I’m leaving out, but after the jump, in no particular order, are twelve of the best shows I witnessed in 2010, eleven of them right here in the Live Music Capital of the World.
And for the record, I wanted to put the Sleigh Bells show on here, as fun as it was once they finally started playing, but everyone who attended knows Beauty Bar is at fault for that show’s omission. What a disaster.
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no comments | tags: A-Trak, Andrew WK, Antone's, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Austin, Austin Music Hall, Besnard Lakes, Best Coast, Big Boi, Big Freedia, Cults, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dam-Funk, Dead Confederate, Deftones, Dirty Projectors, Dominique Young Unique, Dwight Yoakam, East Side Drive In, Free Energy, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Green Day, Hanson, Hold Steady, Japandroids, Jeff the Brotherhood, Josh Ritter, Local Natives, Man Man, Mohawk, No Age, Nutty Brown Cafe, OFF!, Peelander Z, Pixies, Red 7, RJD2, Slick Rick, Small Black, Stubb's, Superpages.com Center, Surfer Blood, SXSW, The New Pornographers, The Thermals, Toadies, Toro y Moi, Washed Out, Waterloo Park, Waterloo Records, Wavves, Weird Al Yankovic | posted in Analysis, Best of 2010, Music, Opinion
Aug
4
2010
Today the kids over at Fun Fun Fun headquarters announced the lineup for their 2010 festivities. Of course, with FFF being my favorite fest to attend for four years running, I bought my tickets well in advance of today’s news. But now that the artists have officially been made known to the public, here are a handful of bands, in no particular order, I intend to be front and center stage for. Who are you excited to see?
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1 comment | tags: A-Trak, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Cold Cave, Devo, Dominique Young Unique, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Man Man, Peelander Z, The Hold Steady, Wavves, Weird Al Yankovic | posted in List, Music
