All Time Low @ Paristown Hall - Louisville, KY
All Time Low recently brought their current North American tour to Louisville, KY to a packed crowd! Starting the night out was pop-punk band Meet Me At The Altar. A whirl of fun and upbeat energy, they had plenty of fans in the crowd singing along from the first note! Performing a variety of songs from their catalog, including a few from their latest EP Model Citizen, they also performed a short medley of covers halfway through their set, asking “Are there any emotion kids in the building? Of course there are! We’re gonna play some covers and we want you to sing along!”. The crowd proceeded to sing along to covers from Jimmy Eat World, Limp Bizcuit, New Found Glory, and LIT. Taking about how they are an all female band, singer Edith Johnson told the crowd how growing up they didn’t see a lot of female bands and were sad about it and wondered why not do it themselves? Also this evening there was a 7 year old fan in the crowd named Zoe, whose birthday it was, so the band had everyone shout Happy Birthday! It was really fun set to start the evening out with! Next up was Nothing, Nowhere, the stage name of singer, rapper and songwriter Joseph Edward Mulherin. A mix of emo rap, trap, and indie rock, he and his band had the crowd dancing along throughout the set with their infectious energy. Moody lighting and a connection with the crowd made it a fun and engaging set!
Headlining this evening was Maryland emo pop punk band All Time Low. Having formed in 2003, they have gained a strong and loyal fan base over the years, with their 8 studio albums and fun and energetic live shows. Playing songs this evening from their extensive catalog, they also performed tracks from their latest album, 2020’s Wake Up, Sunshine. Asking the crowd if there was anyone for whom this was their first show since live shows started back, they proceeded to say “Feels good doesn’t it? Thanks for being here! It feels good to be back on a stage!”. They started things off with “Do You Want Me (Dead)?” and performed tracks throughout their set that included “Some Kind Of Disater”, ““Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)”, “Once In A Lifetime”, “Life Of The Party”, “Monsters”, and “Nightmares”. Towards the end of the evening, they talked about how there was so much love in the room this evening and how they could feel it coming off of everyone and how when they play shows, everyone in attendance becomes a collective family for a while. They then talked about how love is love no matter who you love! They ended the evening with “Dear Maria, Count Me In”, capping off the evening by shooting off a massive confetti cannon, sending colorful bits of confetti throughout the crowd! It was a fun way to end the set and left people buzzing long after the music ended!
MEET ME AT THE ALTAR
NOTHING, NOWHERE
ALL TIME LOW
Lewis Del Mar @ The Foundry - Philadelphia, PA
LANY @ The Met - Philadelphia, PA
Photos courtesy of Carolyn Lederach | October 8th
It goes without saying that LANY has been extremely busy during the COVID times with releasing not just one but two albums. Personally, mama’s boy was one of my favorite albums from 2020 so I was super excited to see some of those songs live, and Malibu Nights remains a solid pop album I still listen to frequently. Along with the new bops on gg bb xx, there were plenty of LANY classics scattered throughout the night partnered with some great graphics displays.
Philadelphia was one of the first stops on LANY’s current GG BB XX US Tour. The show certainly presented its challenges, mostly with the venue fire alarms going off not once, but seven times due to the haze machines. Despite multiple cut-offs mid-song, the crowd didn’t let it stop the songs from continuing, frequently picking up the lyrics from where the house sound got cut off, it really created some magical moments.
Glass Animals @ The Mann Center- Philadelphia, PA
Photos courtesy of Sophia Ragomo | September 28th
After missing concerts for the last year and a half, there are few things more satisfying than their return. Glass Animals at The Skyline Stage was a joyous comeback to touring that helped everyone remember how much we all love live music. Their set was high energy and captivating, and the stage was decked out with stunning lights and visuals in every color that brought each song to life. Highlights from the show included single “Tangerine,” “The Other Side of Paradise,” and “Youth.” If you are interested in catching Glass Animals live, they are playing a few dates on the West Coast before touring the UK in November.
Les Savy Fav & Heavy Lag @ Market Hotel - Brooklyn, NY
Photos courtesy of Edwina Hay | September 12th 2021
Performing their first hometown show since January 2019, Les Savy Fav headlined Market Hotel in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Sunday, September 13, 2021. Although their previous concert at Elsewhere sold out, this one wasn’t, perhaps due to factors such as it starting at 9 PM on a Sunday rather than a Friday or Saturday night, the New York City public school year starting the following day on Monday, September 13th, New York City employees returning to their offices the next day as well, and concerns about the spread of COVID-19. The event was vaccinated only so attendees had to show their proof of vaccination and photo ID before entering the show upstairs.
Brooklyn’s Heavy Lag kicked off the evening with a great set at 9:15 PM and joked about being out of practice since they hadn’t performed in front of people in some time. The group features Greg Thornberg of Ellen and the Degenerates (which broke up in 2019), Anthony Careccia of Up for Nothing, and Josh Goan (who was in both acts). They performed with a fairly new drummer and remarked that they only have two songs on their Bandcamp page at the moment so hopefully, they’ll record more of their material with their newest member in the near future.
Les Savy Fav’s performances are a rare treat as two members of the band (guitarist, Seth Jabour and bassist, Syd Butler) being a part of “Late Night with Seth Meyers”’ 8G Band and Syd running Frenchkiss Records, among other reasons. Fans of the band and their live sets know to expect wild antics from their vocalist, Tim Harrington, and this show was no different (a list of some of the things Tim did appear below and are documented in this photo gallery). Before arriving at Market Hotel, I wondered if Tim would show any restraint as we’re currently in a pandemic and we all should be practicing social distancing, and was naturally unsurprised when their set began and I realized that answer was a resounding no. They indulged fans with favorites throughout their career and ended their set by performing all the songs from their 21-year-old EP, Emor: Rome Upside Down, which recently became available on streaming platforms.
Tim brought a broom and fake flowers on stage before their set began. At some point he brought a living plant from the venue to the stage, and then sang through its leaves.
Tim later licked the bristles of the aforementioned broom, more than once.
He removed his “I’m in Miami, bitch” t-shirt to later don a brown furry vest, followed by a white Les Savy Fav t-shirt, and then his bare chest.
The white band t-shirt was ripped open while he was wearing it.
He brought an audience member on stage to put their head through the other sleeve of the vest to become a two headed monster.
Tim placed himself against the big glass window behind their drummer, Harrison Haynes, that faces a subway platform, at least twice.
He licked the bald head of an audience member standing to my left.
Tim noticed I grabbed my beer in front of him and remarked “she said, ‘not my beer!’” and he was absolutely right.
He threw the microphone cord into a hook hanging from Market Hotel’s ceiling and sang into the mic while it was hanging from the ceiling.
This aforementioned hook was yanked from the ceiling by Tim.
He sang while standing on top of the bar in the back of the room.
Tim put a beer can, his microphone, and one of the lights from the stage, down the front of his pants.
Syd left the stage at one point, only to return to finish the song the band was playing when he left.
Tim borrowed a male photographer’s camera during their final song, which had a wrist strap, and then took photos with it.
Made in America - Philadelphia, PA
Photos courtesy of Bridget Craig | September 3rd & 4th 2021
Dugg
A$AP Ferg
Baby Keep
Bobby Shmurda
Coi Leray
Freddie Gibbs
Griselda
Justin Bieber
Kehlani
Latto
Lil Baby
Megan Thee Stallion
Moneybagg
Morray
Roddy Ricch
Tinashe
Young Thug
Jason Mraz @ The Mann Center, Philadelphia, PA
Photos courtesy of Carolyn Lederach | August 20th 2021
Before coming out to this show, I couldn’t help but think back on my own musical history of Jason Mraz. I distinctly remember the time back in 2002 when I asked my mom to take me to the mall so I could go to FYE and pick up a copy of Waiting for My Rocket to Come. I never thought some 19 years later I would be coming back from a pandemic and taking photos of Jason Mraz celebrating the release of his 7th album. Despite following Mr. A-Z’s music career for all this time, somehow this was the first live show I have attended and I’m kicking myself for waiting this long. Not only was it a fun time with his 12-piece band, but it was also fun to see a new spin to classic hits like “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)”, and get to take in a couple of solo songs as well. It was all the good vibes we needed to come back from a drought of no-shows for over a year.
You really have to appreciate the career Jason Mraz has had, now on tour supporting the release of his 7th studio album Look For The Good. When his first album Waiting For My Rocket to Come was released it really opened up my 14-year-old mind to a clever new form of music, giving me a new appreciation for songwriting that I didn’t know I needed at the time. It wasn’t until Jason’s 3rd album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things., that he really showed the world what he was made of with his biggest hits “I’m Yours” and “Lucky”. Since then he’s still been busy making the world a better place with his avocados (yes, Jason owns an avocado farm), various philanthropy efforts, and more beautiful songs. Lastly, an important note to highlight more of the good in Look For The Good…back on the album’s release in June, Mraz announced that all his earnings from sales and streams of the new LP would be going to numerous Black Lives Matter charities. More can be found on this in his official statement. Hopefully, your feet will find you back at a show soon enjoying life.
Pitchfork Music Festival (Day Two) @ Chicago's Union Park
We sent our fearless co-founder Victoria Sanders to Pitchfork Fest for an array of bands and 105F humid Chicago summer temperatures. Who did we see? How did it go? Here’s a little visual recap below for you!
Scroll through our day two coverage of Ric Wilson, Chai, Belle & Sebastian, Jeremih, and The Isley Brothers.
P4K Music Festival
Day Two
Day two was more hot, more humid, and more intense than day one. Those who made it back out to the park for round two were more than ready to kick off their day with Chicago’s own Ric Wilson - who if you have not yet heard of him, you will soon. He’s doing major things, bringing an energy that you can’t ignore to the stage. Ric get’s his own gallery, and then some with his in the crowd dance.
Scroll through our day two coverage of Ric Wilson, Chai, Belle & Sebastian, Jeremih, and The Isley Brothers.
“I was lucky enough to work with CHAI, who were at Pitchfork from Japan. Their stage energy is unmatched, and their brand of feeling beautiful in your own skin and being cool being yourself pop-punk-indie music was what everyone needed.”
