Lake Street Dive (Live, Again). John Butler Trio. Coheed & Cambria w/ TBS
Listen, if you have not heard of Lake Street Dive or given their albums a listen, you must stop reading right now and check out their music. Even their very first album, which you can tell they were still discovering how to play with each other as well as what kind of band they actually wanted to be- it still showcases everyone's talents. With their album "Bad Self Portraits" though, it becomes clear that they are a funky, jazz-influenced rock band. And singer Rachel Price has The Voice. Holy hell can she sing! I've seen Lake Street Dive at least 6x now, I believe and each time they just blow me away. This show was their biggest one, at Thompson's Point (approximately 5,000 people). Sold out. And they brought everything to this show. They've even added a keyboardist into the mix, who even took the mic for a great cover of Shania Twain's "You're Still the One." Once again, Rachel Price left me speechless, as the band played so tightly, you can tell they've become quite comfortable with each other as a band. They played pretty much everything I could've wanted to hear, and more.
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(Shania Twain cover) (Akie Bermiss lead vocal)
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(with Rubblebucket)
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(The Jackson 5 cover)
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Last week, I went to a show I wasn't necessarily planning on going to, but I won 4 free tickets to it, so I figured what the hell. The show was the John Butler Trio, a band out of Australia, a roots/rock band, who honestly I hadn't listened to very often. My connection to them is through one of my ex-girlfriends who used to play his song "Ocean" for me pretty repeatedly when we were together. It is a beautiful instrumental song. One that made me think they were one of those jam bands, playing mostly hippy-esque music, but after just a few songs into their set at this show in Portland, I quickly realized they were much more of a rock band, tending to jam out with several solos throughout their songs than anything else. A pleasant surprise, honestly. And the band left me extremely impressed, as they played for about 2 full hours. It was exhausting watching them jam with each other and made me wonder how they could stand up there, night after night.
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Last night was a dream bill at one of my least favorite venues (re: Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, located on the waterfront of Boston)- including The Story So Far, Taking Back Sunday AND Coheed & Cambria (headlining the venue for the second time as they seem to have outgrown places like House of Blues at this point). Coheed & Cambria played through some of the "greatest" hits and played their 2 new songs in preparation for their, what seems to be epic, new album due in September, as they venture back into the storytelling realm of the sci-fi story The Amory Wars that all their albums have continued to tell the story of (besides their latest album, The Color of the Sun, which was inspired mostly by the birth of the singer/frontman's son). They definitely rocked out the night, but it also felt a bit compact and I would've loved to see them stretch their setlist to include more songs (hard to do with a co-headliner like Taking Back Sunday, though). They missed some incredible songs off "No World for Tomorrow" as well as the double album "The Afterman." Clearly, they were playing the well known songs that they knew the crowd would want to hear. Opening the set with their new, epic album opening track was great, and bookending the night with "Welcome Home" was great. I cannot wait for their new album and, hopefully, another tour as this seemed like a warm-up for bigger things to come in the fall.
Taking Back Sunday know what people are coming to their shows to hear, as well, songs off their album "Louder Now" (mostly), because that's really the album that broke them into the mainstream, but to me, it's my least favorite album, even though it plays very well commercially, you can tell they were searching for at least that one song that would blow up. In my opinion, that had already happened, with their debut album. They definitely were playing "harder" songs, yet still not shedding their emo sound/image. They never play anything from "New Again" which is probably my favorite album of theirs, although it seems to be the "Pinkerton" album for singer/frontman Adam Lazzara. Everyone is back now from the original lineup, except for founding member Eddie Reyes, who only recently departed. They are clearly still having fun after all these years, together/apart/and together again.
The Story So Far were surprisingly great as the opening band for the night and plenty of people knew and sang along to their songs, although they definitely seemed like a band perhaps far more comfortable in a much smaller venue. They blasted through a full set of 13 songs in about 40 minutes, which was a great way to warm up the crowd, all of whom seemed to be getting sufficiently drunk from the pricey beers at the venue.
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