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Sigur Ros will Change your Soul

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Ethereal. Scandanavian. As deep as the ocean. You can get all of those things without seeing Sigur Ros live, but when you do. Just wow.

We started our evening this time at The Grill on the wharf. Of the three restaurants we’ve been too lately, it is the best. That’s not saying that much though. Hanks Oyster bar needs work. La Vida is workaday. And The Grill? One notch over workaday. This is what happens when good restaurants are “suburbanized” for new development. Alas.

But really who cares when there is a band in from Iceland? With an orchestra.

The anthem was dressed for a concert with seating everywhere.

The show was out of this world. Well more like it was of this world in a different cultural context. We need more feels like this in the modern American experience.

It started with 8.

And it didn’t pick up from there as much as settle in. Even the tech bro in the row behind us shut up and ate his words.


Straláfur


Untitled 1 from ()

There were some crowdpleasers (songs that we love too), but the songs from () were excellent.


untitled 5

And the song you’ve all been waiting for…


hoppipolla

An evening to remember.

St Vincent Could not Cure the Sick

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It started with corn-shaped cornbread and slightly-too-sweet cocktails, so what do you expect?  It ended earlier than planned due to some virus from Ohio.

 

St Vincent put on a hella show at the Anthem, GA was non-optimal but we went way up high in the stands and that was a good call. So much more produced and click-tracky than the other shows we have seen this summer. St Vincent is almost ready for arena rock.

Was it Spinal Tap??


Los Angeles


Sweetest Fruit


Surgeon

Sadly, we opted to head home before New York. But it was a good thing we did. That virus from Ohio was a doozy.


Encore by Maybe

Grace Potter at the Anthem: Rock and Roll, Baby

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Great show. Lots of dancing and joy.

 

 

Though this was the second encore, the solo version of Release was the most powerful song of the set.  Yes please.  Need some of this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rock and roll ending.

 

 

The National (Anthem)

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Yeah sorry about the title, but we saw The National perform at the brand spanking new Anthem performance space in Washington DC. Great show. Here are some pictures. Make sure to watch the Fake Empire video!

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