Shawn Donohue

Dinosaur Jr. : Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY 8/29/2006

Any night is a good night to dig into Dinosaur Jr. but the Warsaw show may have been a really special one, because it turns out the group got a bunch of their equipment stolen after the show. Here’s hoping though that they get it back and their signature sound returns with them for many more bingo hall concerts to come.

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Sonic Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeahs : McCarren Pool, Brooklyn NY 8/12/2006

It is amazing that a band playing together since 1981 can still manage to play with such grace and fire, fresh songs alongside classics, with everything working out so seamlessly. Hopefully the Yeah Yeah Yeahs can reach that point someday. But if they needed any guidance, all they had to do was open their ears to one of the best bands of the last quarter century playing beside them.

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I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness: Fear Is On Our Side

Isolation is the central theme here, from the band’s name to the sound found on Fear Is On Our Side; it seeps through the casket cracks like rain water. A remote gasping vocal delivery of lines like “Reaching/For the end/Never make a sound.” place you squarely back in 1986 at a Cure/Depeche Mode double bill, while the music behind those lines manages to raise the stakes.

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The Whipsaws: Ten Day Bender

These Alaskan country-fried players sure have some depressing Ten Day Benders; they also have enough good ‘ole boy in them to pump a shotgun and pick a fiddle simultaneously.

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Rock and Roll Road Trip

Here are five tips to abide by when planning your summer road trip to catch live music under the stars or in a smoky club. And as you know rules are meant to be broken so we will call them guidelines for your next rock and roll road trip.

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