The New Amsterdams-Live at the Echo Lounge

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Matt Pryor’s Get Up Kids spin-off, The New Amsterdams, is certainly more laid back and contemplative than the band that spawned it...  read more

HEM - Live at The Troubadour

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Singer Sally Ellyson celebrated a birthday during HEM’s recent Tuesday night performance at the historic Troubadour, and as birthday parties go, this was a relatively low key affair...  read more

Counting Crows & John Mayer

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Adam Duritz & company teamed up with John Mayer and hit the road hoping for a summer of pop-rock bliss... but are they pulling it off?  read more

The Blood Brothers

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No, we really don’t expect that most of you dear readers are fans of The Blood Brothers. Still, they are definitely a sign of life...  read more

The Dixie Chicks - Live in California

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Watching country music’s hottest female trio perched at center stage was a little like viewing a concert by the Biker Chicks...  read more

Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic

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Photo spread from the Willie Nelson Picnic, includes Patty Griffin, Neil Young, Billy Bob Thorton, Los Lonely Boys, Shawn Colvin and Mr. Nelson himself.  read more

X - Live at the House of Blues

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Punk legends, X, take their unmistakeable brand of adrenaline-laden joyful noise to the Windy City, generate some converts and try to steal a Paste Writer's wife...  read more

Fleetwood Mac

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The original lineup of Fleetwood Mac (minus Christine McVie) proves it can still tap into the onstage energy that helped make it a pop-rock legend...  read more

Dana Glover

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A booming voice, a story about automobile air-conditioning and an interesting cover song...  read more

Nick Cave - Hollywood Palladium

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Nick Cave sang his way through Hollywood and slinked around the stage a bit on the way...  read more

Summer Festival Round-Up

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Paste writers highlight the highs and lows of this Summer's biggest music festivals, including Bonaroo, Sasquatch! and Field Day...  read more

Sasquatch! Music Festival

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Coldplay, Flaming Lips, Jurassic 5 and Modest Mouse headlined, and the stars were in place...  read more

Sondre Lerche and Ed Harcourt

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Astral Werks Arists Sondre Lerche and Ed Harcourt finished their U.S. tour Monday at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta.  read more

Chris Whitley

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Whitley record Live at Martyrs’ over three unforgettable nights in 1999. I remember nearly every moment of raw, punishing beauty. I walked out sweat-stained, hoarse, feeling borderline arthritic. With any luck, tonight would inflict similar d  read more

Wilco, The Bad Plus

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The mechanical shrieks that demarcate the end of Wilco’s “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” seemed so oddly comforting and familiar in concert...  read more

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

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The fluke/idea/joke began when Jason Trachtenburg wrote a song about a set of slides his wife found at a garage sale...  read more

Field Day Fiasco

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Moved from rural New York to the concrete confines of Giant's stadium, Field Day saw Beck sent to the hospital and 15,000 fans drenched by rain. But then there was Radiohead.  read more

Bonnaroo Music Festival

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The metaphorical black clouds that have shadowed the music festival world in recent weeks steered clear of the second-annual Bonnaroo Music Festival...  read more

The Buzzcocks

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After twenty five years of punk-rock mayhem, the aging Buzzcocks are still cranking out music that means something...  read more

Pedro the Lion - Live at Chain Reaction

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The moment Pedro The Lion hit the stage, one particularly amorous couple in the audience immediately embraced, engaging in a loud public display of affection...  read more

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