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Apples in Stereo
[02.12.2007]

Assembly of Dust
[02.04.2007]

The Hackensaw Boys
[01.27.2007]

Paul Luc

[01.20.2007]

Local Honey / Slim Cessna
[01.13.2007]

Bob Seger

[12.14.2006]

Skinks / Rahim / Transcontinental Booze Hounds
[11.25.2006]

The Big Sleep
[11.18.2006]

Local Honey / The Izzys
[11.10.2006]

Cloud Cult
[11.07.2006]

Grand Buffet / Magnolia Electric Co
[10.31.2006]

Norman Nardini
[10.28.2006]

Wilco
[10.20.2006]

Wilco
[10.18.2006]

Kid Congo Powers
[10.12.2006]

Dave Alvin
[09.23.2006]

Wolfmother
[09.22.2006]

Mountain Goats
[09.20.2006]

World Party
[08.27.2006]

Gil Mantera's Party Dream
[08.16.2006]

Whiskey Daredevils / Local Honey
[08.11.2006]

The Silver Jews
[07.28.2006]

The Bottle Rockets / Marah

[07.27.2006]

Slim Cessna's Auto Club
[07.15.2006]

Alejandro Escovedo
[07.10.2006]

Cat Power
[07.09.2006]

Life In Bed / The Transcontinental Booze Hounds
[07.07.2006]

Violent Femmes
[07.01.2006]

Guitar Zack Wiesinger / Pittsburgh Pirates Loss # 54
[06.30.2006]

The Black Crowes \ Robert Randolph \ The Drive-By Truckers
[06.25.2006]

Pearl Jam
[06.23.2006]

The Octopus Project \ Black Moth Super Rainbow \ Amoeba Knievel
[06.19.2006]

The Bottle Rockets
[06.14.2006]

Govt. Mule / Local Honey / Wil E. Tri
[06.08.2006]

Tehran Iran
[06.03.2006]

Astronautalis
[05.25.2006]

Grand Buffet / Cobalt Black
[05.19.2006]

Phil Boyd w/Manny Theiner & Weird Paul / The Codetalkers feat. Col. Bruce Hampton
[05.15.2006]

The Four Seasons Boys
[05.11.2006]

The Supersuckers
[05.02.2006]

The Breakup Society
[04.28.2006]

The Four Seasons Boys / The Gris Gris
[04.19.2006]

Rhett Miller & The Believers
[04.14.2006]

Good Brother Earl
[04.08.2006]

Slim Cessna's Auto Club
[04.03.2006]

"Guitar" Zack Wiesinger
[03.25.2006]

The Minus 5 / The Silos
[03.24.2006]

The Mendoza Line / Great Lake Swimmers
[03.12.2006]

Dave Alvin
[03.10.2006]

Apollo Sunshine
[03.07.2006]

Lyle Lovett / John Hiatt / Joe Ely / Guy Clark
[02.14.2006]

Marah
[02.12.2006]

Marah / Slim Cessna's Auto Club
[11.12.2005]

Ted Leo + Pharmacists / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
[11.08.2005]

The National
[11.02.2005]

Modey Lemon
[10.07.2005]

Gang of Four
[10.04.2005]

Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers

[09.24.2005]

Thunderbirds Are Now!
[09.22.2005]

The Walkmen
[09.17.05]

Circle
[09.15.05]

Akron/Family, Great Lake Swimmers
[09.05.05]

Los Lobos
[08.21.05]

Grand Buffet, Magnolia Electric Co.
[08.20.05]

Joe Ely

[08.19.05]

Solomon Burke

[08.14.05]

Billie Joe Shaver
[08.11.05]

Robert Randolph & The Family Band
[08.07.05]

Oneida
[08.06.05]

Richard Buckner
[07.13.05]


NYC Road Trip

[07.08.05]


Stars
[06.23.05]

Aimee Mann
[06.19.05]

Bobbie "Blue" Bland, Michael Penn, Erin McKeown, OPEK, The Mavens
[06.18.05]

The Holmes Brothers
[06.15.05]

Drive-By Truckers, Deep Purple
[06.11.05]

Los Lonely Boys, Martin Sexton
[06.10.05]

Marah
[06.08.05]

Brant Bjork & The Bros.

[06.03.05]

Railroad Earth
[05.20.05]

Andrew Bird
[05.17.05]

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
[05.13.05]

Rosavelt
[05.12.05]

Green Day
[04.23.05]

The Shins
[04.15.05]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney
[04.14.05]

The Beakup Society, Whiskey Daredevils
[03.25.05]

Apollo Sunshine
[03.12.05]

From The Jayhawks: Gary Louris and Mark Olson
[03.11.05]

Clem Snide, Archer Prewitt
[03.07.05]

Norman Nardini
[03.04.05]

The SPUDS, Norman Nardini
[02.18.05]

The Comas
[02.15.05]

Tarbox Ramblers
[02.12.05]

Black Tie Revue
[01.28.05]

Elvismas, Shade
[01.08.2005]

Chalk Outline Party, Comrad
[12.18.2004]

One Star Hotel
[12.10.2004]

Ted Leo + Pharmacists
[12.03.2004]

Thanksgiving Eve / The Italian Club / Blairsville, Pa

Sue Foley
[11.20.2004]

The Whiskey Daredevils
[11.19.2004]

The Arcade Fire, The Cynics
[11.15.2004]

Steelers v. Patriots
[10.31.2004]

Mike Watt
[10.21.2004]

Magnolia Electric Co.
[10.14.2004]

The Mendoza Line
[10.09.2004]

The Black Keys
[10.07.2004]

The Secret Machines
[10.06.2004]

The Fiery Furnaces, Charles Bissell (The Wrens)
[09.23.2004]

The Shins
04.15.2005 / CMU Campus / Pittsburgh, PA

Not much to write about on this one. A free outdoor show for CMU’s Spring Carnival. Wifey was out of town on some religious retreat and the 13 year old was a no go on this so it was just the baby and me. A huge crowd filled the lawn. The Shins didn’t start till around 9:30 and it was getting cold and the baby was getting fussy so I made the best of it. The keyboardist was very talkative. He mentioned it was their first time in Pittsburgh, felt like he could get snipered from one of the buildings surrounding the crowd and wondered why whenever he said to people that he liked our city they would respond, “Oh, just wait.”

Their set was somewhat subdued and the crowd from where I was at was just kind of lazing around half paying attention. I took off after they played the Garden State song and on the walk back to the car could hear them tearing into a Zeppelin melody and kicking it up a notch. The damn baby was sick for days after this and wifey yanked by baby privileges for a while.