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Get Out and Go to Fun Summer Events
By PopMatters Staff
Our writers' favorite summer events run the gamut from the ultra local fare of a day devoted to mustard in a small Midwestern town to the huge SummerStage series in New York and the glorious Montreal Jazz Festival. [16.Jun.11]
Summer in New York Is Musical Heaven
It's the scavenger spirit of self-discovery, with the relative high frequency of opportunities to catch bands at small venues early on, that makes the summer in New York a joy. [16.Jun.11]
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals: 3 June 2011 - House of Blues, Chicago
By Selena Fragassi
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals bring their night moves to Chicago. [16.Jun.11]
The Avett Brothers: 20 May 2011 - Houston, TX
Despite being able to draw audiences into 3,000 seat venues, The Avett Brothers still manage to capture a bit of the feeling of street buskers. [15.Jun.11]
Racing Towards God: Asif Kapadia's Documentary Senna Screens at IFC in NYC
By Nik Ruckert
Riveting and emotional, the film Senna tracks his life on and off the race course. [15.Jun.11]
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By Selena Fragassi
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals bring their night moves to Chicago. [16.Jun.11]
While Spurlock promises real insight into the corporate world, and the audience keeps looking for it, it turns out there is none. [15.Jun.11]
Despite being able to draw audiences into 3,000 seat venues, The Avett Brothers still manage to capture a bit of the feeling of street buskers. [15.Jun.11]
Attenberg is always fun to wrestle with, and it leaves a pungent impression you can’t easily shake. [14.Jun.11]
By Melissa Bobbitt
Flogging Molly's records are boisterous things to blast, but until you’re swept up in the frenzy of a friendly jig, you haven’t fully grasped what they are about. [14.Jun.11]
There are few bands in the indie-rock scene that are capable of taking the studio template of their songs and growing them onstage into unique versions that take the listener on more of a journey. [13.Jun.11]
With their ability to tap into universal emotions on everything from breakups to wanting to change the world, the Airborne Toxic Event have established themselves as one of the 21st century's most promising bands. [09.Jun.11]
By Selena Fragassi
Urge Overkill resists nothing in their long overdue homecoming. [08.Jun.11]
Bingham's soulful blend of blues, rock and country has made him one of the greatest crossover artists of modern times, able to appeal to a wide-ranging audience in a way few others can. [07.Jun.11]
With one of the greatest convocations New Orleans has to offer, the first weekend of the 2011 Jazz & Heritage Fest provided everything from zydeco to Cajun to Americana – with a side of crawfish. [06.Jun.11]
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By PopMatters Staff
Our writers' favorite summer events run the gamut from the ultra local fare of a day devoted to mustard in a small Midwestern town to the huge SummerStage series in New York and the glorious Montreal Jazz Festival. [16.Jun.11]
It's the scavenger spirit of self-discovery, with the relative high frequency of opportunities to catch bands at small venues early on, that makes the summer in New York a joy. [16.Jun.11]
Columns
Field Studies
For a few hours each year, music geeks converge on indie record stores in hopes of scoring vinyl Holy Grails -- and then scurry back to their computers to watch auction prices soar on the items they didn’t get. [15.Apr.11]
Jazz Today
What happens when you take two friends who know little about jazz to a club for a night of totally spontaneous "eek-onk" music? The results can be surprising. [14.Apr.11]
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