About a month ago I went to see Oh Sees (formerly Thee Oh Sees) live. I have seen them live once before and I was feeling extremely ready for my second dose of this incredible band. Upon arriving at First Avenue, the familiar semicircle of fans, frenetically packed around the […]
Concert Review
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When I was in sixth grade, I had a subscription to Tiger Beat magazine, and in one of these issues was a short feature about a couple upcoming young artists, and one of them that caught my eye was a fourteen-year old from Oklahoma named Greyson Chance. Whereas most people’s […]
FKA Twigs put me into a trance. I could not stop following her eyes and methodical dance moves, while hearing the voice of an angel. The evening with FKA Twigs at Palace Theater on November 14th was truly a spiritual experience for me. Magdalene is FKA Twig’s second album that […]
“Conversations With Nick Cave” lasted three hours, with no intermission, split 50/50 between solo piano numbers and questions from random audience members. This might sound a bit self-indulgent, and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t. However, it turned out to be one of the best concerts I’ve seen […]
Looking around the Palace Theater, I saw a fair amount of cat-eye glasses, a lot of short bangs, and a sea of IPA beers— typical crowd to be expected for indie rock band Sleater-Kinney, riot grrl pioneers, and all-around rock goddesses. I also saw a lot of unsettled anticipation behind […]
Bedouine’s show at the Cedar Cultural Center last Friday was spellbinding. Draped in a pink lace dress with open sleeves, singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian promised to ease us into her set with a solo version of “You Kill Me” off her self-titled record. I first took notice of Bedouine for her […]
This past Thursday, my second live concert experience in the Twin Cities led me to Ian Noe’s sold-out show at 7th Street Entry. While it may not take much to fill up a venue that has one-sixth the capacity of First Avenue, the venue that shares a building with 7th […]
White Reaper is one of those bands that I try to catch every time they tour. They never fail to put on a good show, which is pretty much the highest praise I can give a live band. Their music is pretty far removed from the kind of rock I […]
When the WMCN staff was asked during our first meeting of the semester about the last good show we had been to, I was one of the only people who couldn’t think of an answer. It was only afterwards that I realized it had been over two and a half […]
I’ll be honest, folks. I didn’t know much about Kero Kero Bonito prior to this show. Had I not gone, I probably would have never even dared venture into Kero Kero Bonito territory. The only song I knew was “Flamingo”, and the meme-like nature of that tune had ruined any […]