Category Archive for 'Shows'

Brittle Stars @ Pop Mayhem, Thursday, May 8

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

6500 miles can’t stop the rock. Thursday, May 8th, a reunited Brittle Stars play Common Grounds as a part of Gainesville’s Pop Mayhem festival.
Hear songs such as, but not performed as well as, these:

Falling Backwards
Someplace (but not this place)
This Trip
So Unfair

Also that night: Ifwhen, the Buddy System, Giddy-Up Helicopter, and maybe one other band. Sorry [...]

Missing a show twice

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Saturday night. Josh called from Common Grounds to remind me to come to the Holopaw show. It’s a bit after 11, so I still have time to see them. When I get down there it’s some sort of free event and Neko Case is a surprise opener! She starts playing Buddy Holly’s “Baby Won’t You [...]

WDHV and Maria Taylor

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

WDHV 101.7 is a little FM station in Trenton that plays some great pre-70’s classic country. The other day I caught the tail end of “Talk Back Trembling Lips” from 1963 and the rhythm section and reverb filled the van so nicely–it made my morning. They do slip in later stuff and even up to [...]

Of Montreal free tonight!

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

9PM in the Reitz Union’s Rion Ballroom.
I read somewhere it’s “first-come, first-served” but students get priority so I’m guessing, once filled to capacity, men on horses with nets will drag non-students out.
I saw them last in Athens.

The Clientele on KCRW

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

RealVideo | RealAudio | mp3 | info page.
Thanks KCRW!

Hana’s First Show

Friday, September 9th, 2005

I posted on Gainesvillebands.com:
This is Hana’s first show and you should be there. They’re writing the most beautiful mellow songs you’ve never heard…songs that you’ll come to treasure and nestle in your mixCDs and playlists around Low and MBV and the Clientele for years to come, but you get to enjoy them NOW out in [...]