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30. Sep, 2014 2 Comments

Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
September 27th

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Knock another off my list – sorta – as Robert Plant has now been seen and heard by me, before he or I die (I totally biffed and missed the boat and should have seen the Plant/Page tour in the mid 90s). And while the lion in winter (looking guy) still has a spring in his summery step and vocal chords – and rawked our frucking socks off – I still can’t help but wonder – if he’s cool with singing Led Zep songs, why isn’t it cool for him to reunite with Page and JPJones and sing Led Zep songs with them???? IT MAKES NO SENSE. OK, OK, so maybe he likes making new music with other people and play those songs (which sound like songs sung by Robert Plant), but the people want the Bonham-less trio back together and back on the road. It would literally be the biggest tour on planet earth (outside of an ABBA or a Talking Heads reunion). WHY CAN’T THIS BE??? WHY ROBERT, WHY????????????? IF ONLY JOHN PAUL JONES HAD NAKED PICTURES OF ROBERT PLANT THAT HE COULD BLACKMAIL HIM INTO REUNITING AND TOURING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or maybe the iCloud bandit can make a fappening threat of Robert Plant naked selfies and LED ZEP COULD BE RAWKING THE WORLD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People, we need to find Plant nudie pics – STAT!!!

Setlist – Poor Howard / Thank You / Turn It Up / Black Dog / Rainbow / Going to California / A Stolen Kiss / What is and What Should Never Be / No Place to Go / Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You / Fixin’ to Die / Whole Lotta Love

Encore – Nobody’s Fault But Mine / Little Maggie

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25. Sep, 2014 1 Comment

Lily Allen
Terminal 5
September 23th

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I invented Lily Allen’s American career. Not really, but I sorta kinda did. I guess when all is said and done for TWS, the helping of Lily Allen hype in America will go down as one of this site’s greatest accomplishments, besides endless horrible puns & photochops

Well, a lot has changed for her and I, since I last saw her perform in 2006/2007. I see WAY less movies and got a little less gay by getting married, and she became a mother, and her music somehow got dumber and less awesome. I gave her latest – Sheezus – numerous spins before seeing her in concert for the first time in 7 years, and besides a couple of choice cuts, I wish I could unspin it. Generic beats mixed with lyrics trying too hard to be… hard = a recipe for lameness. How could the girl who once wrote & sang such cute tracks about doing things and stuff release new stuff of such ill repute? Dunno, but the new songs sounded less awful in concert than they did at home, but what they really did is highlight how great her earlier work is be, although the song ‘Fuck You’ is still a giant heaping pile of sh!t. Maybe the writing was on the wall of things to come with that song. Lily, stop fronting, and get back to where we once were – when 2006 was so our year, and the future seemed limitless, instead of limiting. Maybe the same is true of me and TWS, but what do I know?

Setlist

Sheezus / Not Fair / LDN / As Long as I Got You / Our Time / Everyone’s At It / The Worst (Jhené Aiko cover) / URL Badman / Bass Like Home / Smile / Life for Me / Littlest Things / Miserable Without Your Love / The Fear / 22 / L8 CMMR / Who’d Have Known / Fuck You

Encore – Encore Or Nah (Ty Dolla $ign cover) / Hard Out Here

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Praise Lorde

17. Sep, 2014 1 Comment

Lorde
United Palace Theatre
September 16th

Lorde’s debut album has 10 tracks. The extended version has 5 more songs. She does 2 covers. If she played every single one of those songs in concert, it would be 17 total. Well, she did all the above but two (see setlist below), and with a show that was barely an hour, it was barely a waste of time. In fact, barely an hour had never felt like such an endless euphoric epoch that I wish never ended

Too be honest, I had originally bought tickets to Lorde’s show with the intention of scalping them. Why not, I mean I netted 5th row seats. But a funny thing happened on the way to Craiglist/Stubhub – the tickets never had a demand, and so there wasn’t much value in selling em. Also, in my Robyn homework that I did on Pandora, Lorde’s music kept coming up, and kept blowing my mind and ears. The choice became clear – go to the show. And the show I did go to, and thankful that all that happened, cause she was fcuking rAWEsome (ok, ok, so it’s rare that I go to a show and DON’T come away being rawked, but last nite I was totally sober and so my opinion is even more pinioned!)

I normally see musicians that are close to my age (Jack White) or twice it (Brian Wilson), but rarely do I see anyone do anything that’s half my age (that doesn’t involve sports). Well, Lorde may be 17 or 18 or whatever, but she seems wise beyond her years/crazy hair/beyond crazy dancing, and I look forward to hearing her sweet sweet music until I’m as old as Brian Wilson

Setlist

Glory and Gore / White Teeth Teens / Tennis Court / Buzzcut Season / No Better / 400 Lux / Flashing Lights (Kanye West cover) / Bravado / Biting Down / Heavenly Father (Bon Iver cover) / Still Sane / Ribs / Royals / Team / A World Alone

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Full Bridge Fever

12. Sep, 2014 0 Comments

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
+ Steve Winwood
Madison Square Garden
September 10th

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It is without question (and without much explanation needed) that Tom Petty AND Steve Winwood are both rAWESOME in concert. Free Fallin’??? Running Down A Dream??? Cover of the Byrds’ So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star??????????????? REFUGEE?????????? HIGHER LOVE???? BRING ME A HIGHER LOVE!!!!!!! But we aren’t going to waste any more space on their stellar performances. Cause I’m here to talk about the amazingness that is MSG’s Skybridge seating area. They like skybox seats, but ANYONE can buy em. And here’s what they got – less people, less lines, endless room – room to boogie, to get up and walk around, stretch ye legs, and to boogie. SO MUCH ROOM TO BOOGIE. Normal seats are for lamewads. Skybridge seats are for AWESOMEWADDDDS!!!!! Dude, once you go skybridge, you never go any other kind of bridge EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Setlist

Steve Winwood – I’m a Man / Them Changes / Can’t Find My Way Home / Medicated Goo / Low Spark of High Heeled Boys / Empty Pages / Higher Love / Dear Mr. Fantasy / Gimme Some Lovin’

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star / Mary Jane’s Last Dance / American Dream Plan B / Into the Great Wide Open / Forgotten Man / I Won’t Back Down / Free Fallin’ / A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me) / U Get Me High / Rebels / Two Gunslingers / Yer So Bad / Learning to Fly / Shadow People / I Should Have Known It / Refugee / Runnin’ Down a Dream

Encore – You Wreck Me / (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone / American Girl

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ps – Full Moon Fever is one of the fcuking greatestestesest albums ever

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Öh Hells Yeah!

21. Aug, 2014 Comments Off on Öh Hells Yeah!

Robyn & Röyksopp
JBL Live at Pier 97
August 20th

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Dude, Robyn!
Dude, Röyksopp!!
Dude, together they made the bestest song of 2009!!!
Dude, together they made the bestest song of 2014!!!!
Dude, they touring together!!!!!
Dude, we saw them!!!!!!
DUDE, IT WAS SO RÖBYNKSOPPTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

Setlist

R̦yksopp РThe Drug / Happy Up Here / What Else Is There? (with Zhala) / This Must Be It (with Zhala) / Senior Living / Remind Me / Poor Leno

Robyn – Be Mine! / Love Is Free / Set Me Free / Indestructible / Work It Out / Stars 4-Ever / Call Your Girlfriend / Dancing on My Own / With Every Heartbeat

Robyn & R̦yksopp РSayit / Every Little Thing / The Girl and the Robot / Monument / Do It Again

Encore – None of Dem

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