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Fun Fun Fun Fest – Day 2
Sunday’s lineup featured several familiar acts, including Cat Power, Mates of State, Ted Leo, and the reunited Murder City Devils. But, for me, it were the instrumental outfits that defined
Fun Fun Fun Fest – Day One
The two-day Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin this past weekend wasn’t anything close in scale to the city’s two main musical events – the Austin City Limits Festival or
Berlin Blitzkrieg
Carnegie Hall has begun its full-frontal assault on NYC with the nearly-inescapable Berlin In Lights festival: a 17-day, multidisciplinary event intended to highlight the past and present of the vibrant
After Fun
This town is all about after parties: after seeing a bakers dozen of bands today in Waterloo Park, I decided to stop by Club Mohawk for a free indoor/outdoor show,
Kinky Sunday
Before heading back to day two of the Fun Fun Fun fest, I had to stop off at the Texas Book Fair once more to see Kinky Friedman play a
Austin Noise
I just got out of Alex Ross’ Rest Is Noise presentation here at the Texas Book Fair, where he interpersed book excerpts and other observations with samples of Stravinsky, Schoenberg,
Austin Bound
Taking off for Austin for the second time in six weeks, this time for the second annual Fun Fun Fun fest, featuring 60 bands on three stages at downtown Waterloo
Speaking of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, 10.30.07 Violinist Julia Fischer, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto SPPO, with Artistic Director (since 1988) Yuri Temirkanov, having just performed Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5