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I had never seen a show at the Orpheum Theater in Boston. It's one of those big venues with assigned seating that has never really piqued my interest; however, after seeing Andrew Bird with Loney, Dear at the Orpheum, I'm glad I finally got a chance to experience it. The interior surprised me as it was a lot smaller and more intimate than I was expecting and while having a lavish treatment of ornate moldings and architecture, ceiling murals and drapes, its lackluster upkeep over the years lent it an overall feeling and smell similar to those old [...]

Mark Kozelek , the singer-songwriter who also records under Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon , has always been one of the most intriguing cover-musicians to me. When he covers a song he doesn't just pick up a guitar and play, he smashes the source material into dust and then puts the pieces back together in an odd and delicate way until it becomes something often times deeper and more profound than the initial conception. The Red House Painter's cover of The Cars ' "All Mixed Up" was "THE" song that me trapped in Mark's [...]

Throughout my college years I recall much noise about the band Sunny Day Real Estate from my peers, mostly peripheral noise, however, which put them firmly under the category of "bands I should check out but will probably never get around to." I knew enough to know that I was interested in hearing more, with a few songs breaking through that peripheral barrier by way of mixed tapes from friends. Put "Every Shining Time You Arrive" at the right spot in a mixed tape and amazing things can happen. Likewise, I remember hearing about [...]