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My Name Is John Michael (Spike Hill, NYC, 9/20/09)
Location matters. If you think it doesn’t then try and imagine “The Boss” coming from some place other than New Jersey. Location influences both the artist and how the listener perceives the artist....
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Sunny Day Real Estate (Terminal 5, NYC, 9/27/09)
Photo Credit: Brooklyn Vegan Sunday night was Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of Atonement, which served as a somewhat poetic backdrop for “emo” pioneers Sunny Day Real Estate [MySpace], to confess and...
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Hennessy Artistry 2009 Series Finale in NYC
By the grace of God himself (and by having a super fly hook-up as well), the RE family were lucky enough to grace Terminal 5 with our presence for the finale of the Hennessy Artistry Tourft. Common...
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[Live] Wild Beasts @ Mercury Lounge
We love posting live concert material here at RE, so thanks for the folks at Baeble Music for putting this bit into our mailbox today. It’s from the recent Mercury Lounge performance by England’s Wild...
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CMJ: The Antlers at Soundfix Records
It stinks when you come down with an illness during any music festival, but especially one with the size and value of last week’s CMJ. After Thursday night’s shows, that was pretty much it for me last...
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Super Furry Animals at NYC’s Highline Ballroom
Super Furry Animals [MySpace] recently played a gig at NYC’s Highline Ballroom (a near 1.5 hour show!) captured by our good friend’s at Baeble Music that had their most ardent supporters out of their...
View ArticleThe Mountain Goats Live in Paris
The Mountain Goats hold a particularly special place in my music-loving heart as it is at one of their shows that I chilled with a close friend whilst looking at hot NYU girls and finally realized,...
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Headlights Announce Tour with David Bazan and Daytrotter Session
We’ve talked about Headlights [Official] here in the past (as their video for “Love Song for Buddy” was recently featured in our 8 Great Videos Worth Checking Out Now) but they announced yesterday...
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Radio Exile SXSW 2010 Review 3/17/10 (Brooklyn Vegan, The Music Slut, etc)
This is my second year at SXSW. I am now a grizzled veteran who looks with jaded eyes at the whole Shiner Bock-loving, future talking but no actual action taking, skinny jean wearing crowds that...
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Chris Pureka, Xylos & Peasant (4/12/10, Music Hall of Williamsburg, NYC)
Hard to believe that it took me so long to get out to Music Hall of Williamsburg but after getting married, the last two years have really been a blur. Monday night, Radio Exile grabbed a staff photog...
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DeVotchKa, Plates of Cake (4/27/10, Bowery Electric, NYC)
Photo Credit: Andrew St. Clair Tuesday night was another stellar night for Radio Exile – we had a great giveaway here on the site and our photog-in-demand, Mr. Andrew St. Clair, headed over to Bowery...
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Jeff Mangum (5/6/10, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC)
Photo Credit: Amoeblog A Jeff Mangum live review. Did I really just write those words? To review a live show generally implies you SAW said show, which means I SAW Jeff Mangum play live. Wow. I’m not...
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Sia/Girl In A Coma (5/6/10, Terminal 5, NYC)
Photo Credit: Andrew St. Clair San Antonio’s Girl In A Coma was the opening act for Sia at Terminal 5 and served as a nice counterpoint for Sia’s upbeat jazz/pop vocals. Most of GiaC’s set was from...
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The Postelles/Xylos (5/16/10, Brooklyn Bowl, NYC) – Concert Review
The Postelles and Xylos performed at the Taste of Williamsburg after-party at Brooklyn Bowl on Sunday which was a benefit to help build the Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center. The show...
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Pearl Jam (5/18/10, Prudential Center, Newark, NJ) Concert Review
Photo Credit: Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger So, let’s get this out of the way right off the bat- I’m not a music critic, I just read too much Chuck Klosterman. Tuesday night I went out to see Pearl Jam...
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The Futureheads w/ The Like, Static Jacks (6/8/10, Bowery Ballroom, NYC)...
Photo: Andrew St. Clair The Static Jacks may write about escaping their home state. But while you can take the band out of New Jersey, you can’t take the New Jersey out of the band. And boy, do they...
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Darwin Deez w/ Scary Mansion (6/22/10, Santos Party House, NYC)
Photo Credit: Andrew St. Clair Radio Exile were lucky enough to be present to see Darwin Deez back home for their first show since NME’s Radar Tour. They’ve been described as “near-genius” pop and...
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Public Enemy (Central Park Summerstage, NYC, 8/16/10)
Photo – Andrew St. Clair On 8/16/2010 on Central Park Summerstage, Chuck D of Public Enemy said that they don’t perform in NYC very often, but then they do it’s like an eclipse. It’s special. And...
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TENNIS w/ Night Manager, Cool Runnings, Family Portrait, Magic Bullets...
Denver lo-fi pop duo Tennis have gotten a lot of press recently after the release of their 7” on Underwater Peoples. I succumbed to the pressure from friends to check out their tunes [link] and I...
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Anamanaguchi/Peelander-Z/Starscream @ The Studio at Webster Hall (1/14/2011)
Photo by Andrew St. Clair Last year, I saw Peelander-Z at Santos Party House and it was one of the best shows I’ve ever been to. If there was a Grammy Category for Most Entertaining Live Act...
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