On the opening night of this year’s Forecastle Festival, a severe thunderstorm swept through Louisville, Kentucky, causing Sam Smith to cut his headlining set short and the entire festival crowd to be evacuated from the grounds. The other two days of the...
More than once the sentiment echoed that Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, NC must be what South By Southwest was 15 years ago. Indeed, both festivals offer an urban playground during a mild weather season, wherein a church, courtyard, or art museum can serve as a music...
The festival that started as a small local affair in a city park has grown over the past decade into one of the largest annual music festivals in the Midwest. This year, Forecastle Festival saw record attendance – to the tune of 80,000 people – and one of the most...
Anyone with a cursory interest in American indie rock of the last 30 years would be completely remiss to not list Slint’s surprise spring show in their hometown as the year’s best – their first Louisville appearance in almost a decade. Of course,...
Photography for my old music blog, The Decibel Tolls, featuring Louisville’s great DIY fest Cropped Out. Coverage included Jandek, Lil B, David Liebe Hart, Neil Hamburger, R. Stevie Moore, and...
Halloween marks the time of year that bands across the country sonically dress up as other landmark artists, but seldom does a member of the original band pop in to help with the covers. Two skilled bands took to task the catalog of Silver Jews and Pavement Thursday...
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