Archive for the ‘Concert Previews’ Category
Crayon Fields: Concert Preview (TT The Bear’s: 10.27.2010)
Balmy spring pushes through the damp remnants of winter. Rainshowers slow to a drizzle as a boy darts across cobblestones. Loping down the puddle-strewn avenue, he dodges pools of water, crossing one city side to another, hoping to see his sweetheart. His heart skips to the sounds of Crayon Fields..
The Spring Standards: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.07.2010)
On their new album, Would Things Be Different, many of The Spring Standards’ songs have that comforting familiarity of a story retold many times. But then the band will throw in an unexpected chord that adds dark clouds to an otherwise sunny moment, or pause just long enough to suggest a song is over, only to launch back into it again…
Cotton Jones: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.07.2010)
Alongside America’s dusty western highways, wooden churches call out to all the road’s travelers. The driver of a slow moving Cadillac passes each chapel without stopping. He’s sinned too many time to go inside…
Pepper Rabbit: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.07.2010)
A lonely astronaut slips a record from its tattered sleeve. He drops the gramophone’s needle onto the crackling vinyl, sending banjos, clarinets, and ukeleles echoing across the craters of the moon…
Film School: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.02.2010)
Hidden behind a TV screen shiny with reverb, Film School plays a soundtrack to young love. Their gentle melodies ring familiar as a sweeping score to sweaty palms and jittery nerves..
The Depreciation Guild: Concert Preview
(TT The Bear’s: 10.02.2010)
With layered guitar melodies floating above showers of golden coins and washes of twinkling rainbows, The Depreciation Guild pulls from an 8-bit Nintendo soundcard to create the pixelated glow of their pop dreamscape…
Caribou: Concert Preview (Paradise: 09.19.2010)
Like throwing glittering shards of glass at a wall and seeing them coalesce into a Mandelbrot set, Caribou unleashes a prismatic refraction of sound as unlikely as it is enrapturing…

