Bright Eyes, Lucy Dacus, and Waxahatchee: A dream bill
QUEENS, NY – After a nine-year hiatus—and ten years since their last live shows—Bright Eyes is back. Among the folks in the front row was a couple who had traveled from Florida for the sole purpose of seeing the band. Behind them stood a…
Waxahatchee Reverberates In The Summer Night
CLICK HERE To Go Back To The Main Article! QUEENS, NY- “…Waxahatchee’s gorgeous set felt like the thawing of our pandemic-frozen beings. With the exception of a Haim cover (“The Steps”), Birmingham native Katie Crutchfield’s performance was drawn entirely from her fifth and most…
Lucy Dacus Translates Home Video Memories At Forest Hills Stadium
CLICK HERE To Go Back To The Main Article! QUEENS, NY- “… Oberst’s origin story is rooted in the Midwest—as New York Magazine observed in 2005, the Omaha, Nebraska native’s “lyrics [are] tied to a certain bleak emotional landscape—which often mirrored the physical one…
Mapping Memories: Death Cab for Cutie’s “Thank You For Today”
QUEENS, NY- A silhouette on Dyes Inlet, lit by moonlight. The corner record store turned into a block of luxury condos. Adrift on the open seas, no lighthouse in sight. A sense of dislocation permeates Death Cab for Cutie‘s ninth studio album, Thank You for…
Jenny Lewis Is About The Granular Details And Splashes of Psychedelic Aesthetics
CLICK HERE To Go Back To The Main Article QUEENS, NY- “…The evening at Forest Hills Stadium opened with the iridescent Jenny Lewis, whose history with Gibbard reaches back to the early aughts collaboration in Postal Service (Gibbard’s electro-pop project with Jimmy Tamborello). Lewis’s crazy-impressive cast…
David Byrne Is Disrupting Dystopia
QUEENS, NEW YORK- A gridwork of fold-out chairs lined the lawn of Forest Hills Stadium, but if the venue was expecting a staid, seated crowd, they missed the memo on American Utopia. Once the shimmering, eerie opening of “Here” drifted out across the field, the…
I See You: The xx Returns To NYC [PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] The sinuous movements, like their hushed, intimate songs, suggest both seduction and confrontation. On Friday night at New York’s historic Forest Hills Stadium, Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim — vocalists/guitarists of The xx — traced steps…
