Show Reviews

If you made it up to Burlington, VT looking for "freshies" at the slope or in this case at the Lotus show your odds were good either way.

Daniel Snaith, also known as Caribou, formerly known as Manitoba, reportedly chose his most recent moniker while on an acid trip with friends in the Canadian wilderness.

Recently unearthed pics of Umphrey's McGee, Spearhead, The Flaming Lips, and more from The ECHO Project last October...better late than never!

Roots of Creation rocks Nectar's!

I have to admit, I was pretty eager to head down to Langerado this year. Yes, the fact that it was at Big Cypress was appealing, as I had heard from all my phishy phriends that the place was beautiful, but I was just excited that I was going to be able to see music late at night this year.

An exceptionally tasty guitar player with a tremendous vocal range, natural stage presence and contagious playfulness and humor, Zach Deputy employs live looping as a means of filling out his sound.

Judging from the crowd at Raleigh, NC's Pour House Music Hall, Mike Doughty is still quite the revered alt-rock figure. Ten years removed from the heyday of Soul Coughing, it's becoming clearer to me that Doughty's verbose psuedo-rap rants and stylish songwriting were more than the crux of the band's short-lived success - they were the band's lifeblood. With his solo jaunts, Doughty has created a more direct line of communication between he and his fans. Over the past 8 years, the shows have become notorius for spirited conversations between performer and audience, plus borderline stand-up comedy from Mike at times.

Last night kicked off the first night of the Copy/Paste/Repeat tour featuring Lotus and Telepath. The tour supports the recent release of the CD Copy/Paste/Repeat which features remixed versions of Lotus songs by a variety of artist including Juan Maclean, DJ Harry and appropriately, Telepath.

RAQ brought the roof down at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina last Friday night, their last stop in the south before heading home.

RAQ comes home to the south. The guys from RAQ may hail from the green mountains of Vermont, but they have a second home south of the Mason Dixon line. Last Saturday the RAQ Express made its inaugural appearance at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, NC, the first of a week’s worth of shows in the “dirty south”.