Videos and photos taken by After The Show at the Lissie/Landon Pigg concert on Friday in New York.
Category: Concert Review (Page 7 of 8)
Monday night (8-16-2010), El May and Rachael Cantu played at The Hotel Cafe in LA.
I was pleasantly surprised that The Hotel Cafe had been renovated and was much larger than the last time I had visited 7 years ago.
El May (Lara May) played a solo set consisting of guitar, experimental looping of vocals and guitar, and piano. Highlights were when she played songs on the piano such as “Draining a Lake” and songs on guitar like “Don’t You” and “Order in the Nothing.”
Rachael Cantu played a great set with an accompanying guitarist with her. Although she didn’t play her cover of “Can You Tell” by Ra Ra Riot, she did play songs like “Thieves and Their Hands.” The use of a guitar slide gave a country twang to some songs. She ended her set with the song “Saturday,” which sounded great with the combination of just acoustic guitar and electric guitar.
Shout out to ATS reader Maribella M. who was also at the show!
On Thursday August 5th, three bands played a free show in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival.
Holly Miranda, Joan as Policewoman, and Metric took the stage — Holly Miranda and Metric were definitely the best bands of the evening.
Highlights were Holly Miranda playing “Waves” and “I’d Rather Go Blind,” with Kaki King joining in on guitar, and Metric playing an acoustic version of “Combat Baby” as the last song of the encore.
Rachael Cantu, Carina Round, Ben Lee, the Silver Lake Chorus, and Kaki King played at the Mint in LA on Thursday for the Gulf Coast Benefit Concert. Kaki King organized and emceed the concert.
Highlights:
-Ben Lee playing his song “Pop Queen” with Kaki King playing the guitar solo.
-Ben Lee playing “We’re All In This Together” with the Silver Lake Chorus singing back-up vocals.
-Kaki King covering “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” by The Smiths.
Also in attendance were Clea Duvall, Tegan Quin of Tegan and Sara, Zooey Deschanel of She & Him, Lara May of El May, Ione Skye, Liz Feldman, and Kate Moennig.
On Thursday July 1st at The Mint in LA, a Gulf Coast Benefit concert will feature the following line-up:
8:00 – Rachael Cantu
8:45 – Carina Round
9:30 – Ben Lee
10:15 – Silverlake Chorus
11:00 – Kaki King
To get tickets, click here.
On Friday May 28, Reni Lane played at LA’s Viper Room.
Although her set was short, she and her band played songs from her debut album including “Place For Us,” “Even You,” “Drive,” “You Are Here,” and “Never Stop.”
Reni Lane’s debut album has a lot of other good songs, like “We Don’t Forget” and “Never Be Another You,” which she unfortunately did not play at this show.