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Written by Shain Shapiro
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
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Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
December 5, 2006
Sierra Leone has become one of Africa’s success stories. A fragile peace is currently maintaining after nearly two decades of civil war, and expatriates and families are returning to Freetown to experience the meaning behind its moniker. While peace is embryonic, human rights abuses have been substantially quelled, and art is propagating from the nation like the wringing of a wet sponge. One such example is the Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, a septet of former refugees who met and developed their craft while escaping the civil war in the Kalia Refugee Camp in Guinea. A documentary was made of their trials and tribulations, which prompted global acclaim, a record deal with Anti and international touring.
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Written by Tim Donnelly
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
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 Photo credit Bruce Gilbert
Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, HI
December 2, 2006
It was more than a tour-ender, more than a birthday celebration and more than a homecoming: Pearl Jam’s Honolulu show will go down in the annals of Hawaiian music history as quite possibly the greatest rock show ever held in the islands, and dats no joke, brah.
The freewheeling (a multiple wine-bottle night for Eddie Vedder),
forthright (an amazing cover of the Hawaiian anthem, Izzy
Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Hawai’i ’78”) and frantic show (32 songs) covered
every era of the band’s catalogue, from the 15-year-old “Oceans” to the
freshly-ridden “Big Wave.”
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Written by K. Patrick Welch
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
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 Photo credit Brad Hodge
Roseland Ballroom, Portland, OR
December 2, 2006
With a sensibility towards the riff, not the hit, Wolfmother surfed an impossible wave of expectation, staying upright throughout and never dropping the seemingly insurmountable enthusiasm created long before the chants of “Wolf-Moth-Er” ushered the band onstage. The expectation was high when Wolfmother kicked off a 14-song set of guitar-crunching, ear-splitting music that turned even the balcony into a mosh pit. Performing moves last seen at a Deep Purple concert, the band presented an evening that never felt planned; it always felt like lead guitarist/singer Andrew Stockdale was simply in the moment.
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Written by Antonia Santangelo
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
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 Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY
November 16, 2006
It was a dreary and rainy night in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The streets were drenched, but inside the Warsaw, it was a different story altogether. The Twilight Singers, led by the seductive Greg Dulli (formerly of The Afghan Whigs) were gearing up to entertain a legion of devotees. A crowd clearly composed of die-hard Whigs and Twilight fans filled the venue, groups of women squealing over Dulli’s expected charismatic performance, men with previous setlists in their heads remarking how they hoped such and such song would be played, encores and how one city had compared to another.
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Written by Shawn Taylor
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
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 The Pour Haus, Louisville, KY
November 15, 2006
For those unfamiliar with David Rawlings, he has spent years recording and touring with Gillian Welch. So it only makes sense that on this night, Gillian was the additional cog in Rawlings’ machine. A last-minute booking, the band’s show could have been a disguise for a standard Welch show, but, in fact, this night belonged to Rawlings.
The band got cranked up with a beautiful rendition of Bill Monroe’s “I’m on My Way Back to the Old Home,” followed up with “I Hear Them All”, a song co-written with Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor. By the time they started Bob Dylan’s “Wicked Messenger” the 200 people in attendance were completely mesmerized by Rawlings’ flawless guitar work and the pair’s heavenly harmonies.
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