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Lollapalooza Day 3: Mumford and Sons
Mumford and Sons played an exceptional closing day set that once again packed out the Playstation stage to the gills. The band, which has been gaining significant traction in the US after the release of their terrific album Sigh No More, serenaded the crowd with their beautifully harmonizing vocals and hand clapping, foot stomping folk ballads. Their unique sound lent itself quite well to the festival setting and they seemed right at home in front of the sea of people who came to see them.
Mumford and Sons are embarking on a fall tour that will see them travel through Europe, the UK, then back to the US for a run of dates that will see stops in many of the cities that the band played on their previous tour. After catching them at Lollapalooza, I would highly recommend catching them if you get the chance. Dates for the tour are listed below, including a show at Stubb’s!
Jamie Lidell to Play Antone’s this Fall
Jamie Lidell will bring his genre bending show to Antone’s in September. If you have had the chance to see Lidell perform, then you may want to go ahead and snap up your tickets now because you know what to expect. Lidell’s shows often meld genres including soul, funk, electronic and experimental with some pop sprinkled in for good measure. If that alone is not enough to make you curious enough to check him out then read on.
On 2005′s Multiply, Lidell took Warp, his record label to a place it rarely treads, a land of soul music and groove that he took and matched with his own style of percussion beats and persona that makes for a fresh experience each time you listen. His most recent album Jim continues down the same vein, but who knows what he has in store for his upcoming album Compass. No one does really other than Lidell himself which is the beauty of his work. Lidell is known to pepper in the occasional frenzy of electronic music in his sets that nods to his other band Super Collider and to his earlier work. Much of the backup vocals and even percussion on Multiply are created using only one instrument – Lidell’s voice, making it an even more fascinating album to listen to. If this write-up tells you anything let it be that you do not want to miss a Jamie Lidell show – you just never know what you are going to get – and in this case that is a very, very good thing.
Get tickets to see Lidell at Antone’s on September 24
Live Review: Broken Bells Spinner Popup Show at the Red River Parking Garage
This was definitely one of those sxsw shows that people will be buzzing about for a few days to come. Broken Bells, whose members include James Mercer of The Shins fame and Brian Burton, better known to many as Danger Mouse, played an intimate show in the parking garage at Red River and 8th Street yesterday afternoon. The promoters of the show kept capacity very low – I heard that approximately 220 people in total were let in not including media and personnel. This served to create a very intimate environment within a very unique setting. The line for the show wrapped around two sides of the garage, and most of those people peered through the chain link fence to get a glimpse of the show even once the makeshift venue reached capacity.
Now on to the show. Let me first say that I personally think that the folks over at Spinner did a great job of putting this together and building a nice set with strong sound for this show. Well done guys! The band entered from the top level of the garage and quickly took the stage launching into their first single from their new album “The High Road” with Danger Mouse behind the kit. They spoke only a few times throughout the show, but seemed to be enjoying playing in such a unique setting. Throughout the set, Danger Mouse played a few different instruments, and Mercer provided strong vocals and guitar work for the entire show. The band consists of seven traveling members in total, helping to recreate the depth of sound that can be found on the record.
The set list for the show was comprised of all of the bands material to this point, so this was not simply one of those ten minute pop-up affairs. If you have not listened to Broken Bells, do not expect some type of James Mercer hip hop project. The album has the fingerprints of Danger Mouse all over it, but is unique to anything that the two have produced before, and in my opinion it works darn well. Check out one of my favorite tracks from the album below…actually I really like them all but had to pick one.
Lots of media from this show to be seen: check out a video from the show right here and a couple photos including the set list, and go here for the rest of my show photos and here to add your own photos from the show. Hope you enjoyed the show if you were there and that this gives you a taste of it if you weren’t!
[audio:http://www.frontgatetickets.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/10.The-Mall-and-Misery.mp3|titles=The Mall and Misery by Broken Bells]
