Backseat Sandbar

CONCERT REVIEWS

2009

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – 6/27/2009

MSTRKRFT – 6/25/2009

Peak Summit Festival – 6/20/2009

Phoenix – 6/18/2009 (NYC)

Ben Sollee – Bonnaroo – 6/14/2009

Bonnaroo – Day 2 – Day 3 – Day 4 – June 11-14, 2009

The Dead Weather – June 11, 2009

Grizzly Bear – 6/9/2009

Ezra Furman and the Harpoons – 6/9/2009 (NYC)

Clues – 6/7/2009 (NYC)

Jane’s Addiction, NIN, Street Sweeper Social Club – 5/30/2009

Meat Puppets – 5/27/2009

Gomez – 5/27/2009

Kentucky Reggae Festival – 5/23-24/2009

Green Day – 5/22/2009 (NYC)

Black Moth Super Rainbow – 5/19/2009

NYC Popfest (The Radio Dept., Pants Yell!, Eux Autres, Secret History) – 5/16/2009 (NYC)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – 5/12/2009 (NYC)

Chemic & The Instruction – 4/24/2009

Bobby Long w/ Sam Bradley – 4/23/2009

Starfucker – 4/21/2009 (NYC)

Royal Bangs – 4/19/2009

G. Love & Special Sauce – 4/15/2009

Tallest Man on Earth – 4/15/2009 (NYC)

Death Cab for Cutie – 4/10/2009

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – 3/12/2009

Bouncing Souls – 3/10/2009

Ben Kweller with The Watson Twins – 3/3/2009

Anni Rossi – 3/3/2009

Brett Dennen – 3/2/2009

Matt & Kim w/ Hollywood Holt – 2/28/2009

Sondre Lerche & Brandi Carlile – 2/21/2009

Saul Williams – 2/20/2009

The Instruction w/ The Zero Element – 1/23/2009

The Seedy Seeds – 1/23/2009

Lambchop w/ Sapat – 1/22/2009

Kings of Leon – 1/20/2009

Halfway to Forecastle (Squeeze-bot, Buffalo Killers, Ekoostik Hookah,
Broderick, The Protomen, DJ 2nd Nature, OK DJz) – 1/17/2009

2008

Daniel Johnston – 11/22/2008

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – 11/21/2008

Mates of State – 11/15/2008

Jolie Holland w/ Herman Dune – 11/8/2008

Girl Talk w/ The Death Set – 11/7/2008

Icy Demons w/ Royal Bangs & The Photographic – 11/6/2008

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, No Kids, Pomegranates – 10/31/2008

Crystal Castles – 10/25/2008 (Chicago)

Elephant Six Collective w/ Jeff Mangum – 10/23/2008

Cory Branan – 10/18/2008

The National – 10/16/2008

Starfucker – 10/14/2008

Big Fresh, The Seedy Seeds, Idaho, Alaska – 10/4/2008

Ben Folds – 10/4/2008

The Montagues – 10/4/2008

MidPoint – Day 1 (Why?, Coltrane Motion) Day 3 (The Mocks, Mates of State, Radio 4) 9/25 and 9/27/2008

Paul Baribeau w/ Good Luck – 9/13/2008

Vampire Weekend w/ White Williams – 9/9/2008

Nine Inch Nails – 8/31/2008

VHS or Beta – 8/27/2008

Bob Dylan – 8/22/2008

My Morning Jacket – 8/16/2008

Smashing Pumpkins – 8/12/2008

Grizzly Bear – 8/2/2008

Ultra Pulverize, KY Prophet, Giveupnewyork & William Sides Atari Party – 8/1/2008

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – 7/26/2008

Forecastle – 7/25-27/2008

Day 1 (GZA, Del the Funky Homosapien, DJ Second Nature, Code Red), Day 2 (All We Seabees, Go Van Gogh, The Seedy Seeds, Pomegranates, DW Box and One Long Song, Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s, Unwed Sailor, Film School, Prizzy Prizzy Please, Snowden, People Noise, Extra Golden, Tortoise, Z Trip, Disco Biscuits), Day 3 (Backyard Tire Fire, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Brigid Kaelin, Gran Bel Fischer, Cabin, Catfish Haven, Paradigm, Groovatron, Del McCoury Band, Dr. Dog, The New Mastersounds)

Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – 7/21/2008

Apples in Stereo – 7/18/2008

George Clinton & P-Funk, JJ Grey & Mofro – 7/4/2008

Imaad Wasif & RTX – 7/1/2008

Blondie – 6/24/2008

Terrastock 7 – 6/19-22/2008 Day 1(The Photographic, Parlour), Day 2 (Damon & Naomi, Helena Espvall, Masaki Batoh, Major Stars), Day 3 (Oneida, Wooden Shjips, Tara Jane O’Neil, Bardo Pond, Grails, Motorpsycho, Sapat, Mono) & Day 4 (Simply Saucer, Rain, Pelt, Windy & Carl, The Entrance Band, Paik, Mokoto Kawabata)

Jose Gonzalez – 6/14/2008

Ingrid Michaelson – 6/4/2008

Cake – 6/4/2008

Kate Nash – 4/24/2008 (NYC)

FreeKY Fest ’08 – 4/26/2008

Blue Man Group – 4/25/2008

Stars of the Lid – 4/24/2008

The Whigs – 4/23/2008

Iron & Wine – 4/20/2008

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club w/ The Duke Spirit – 4/19/2008

Sara Bareilles – 4/18/2008

Cabin – 4/18/2008

Kathleen Edwards – 4/17/2008

Galactic w/ Boots Riley – 4/15/2008

The Bravery – 4/13/2008

Dead Child – 4/11/2008

These United States / Vandaveer – 4/4/2008

Thao Nguyen / Why? – 3/29/2008

The Weakerthans / A.A. Bondy – 3/28/2008

Stars – 3/26/2008

Ferdinand Fox / Brian Scary – 3/22/2008

Pere Ubu – 3/22/2008

Man Man / The Extraordinaries – 3/20/2008

Built to Spill / Meat Puppets – 3/14/2008

Brett Dennen – 3/14/2008

The Photographic / Hotpipes – 3/8/2008

Black Mountain / Phantom Family Halo – 3/7/2008

Will Hoge, Dawn Landes, Jason Isbell – 2/29/2008

Over the Rhine / Ben Sollee – 2/23/2008

Wax Fang / Ultra Pulverize – 2/22/2008

Louisville is for Lovers – 2/15/2008

Ingrid Michaelson- 2/11/2008

Matthew Perryman Jones- 2/11/2008

Brigid Kaelin – 2/8/2008

Ben Sollee – 2/8/2008

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – 2/1/2008

Dan Deacon/Girl Talk- 1/26/2008 (Chicago)

2007

Label X Showcase- 12/15/2007

Peter Bjorn & John – 11/30/2007

Jason Collett – 11/20/2007

Feist – 11/20/2007

The Photographic – 11/16/2007

Dr. Dog – 11/03/2007

Jens Lekman – 10/23/2007

Man Man – 10/13/2007

The Juan MacLean – 10/05/2007

LCD Soundsystem / Arcade Fire – 10/03/2007

The National – 06/15/2007

The National – 06/12/2007

!!! – 05/25/2007