Category: Show Reviews

Oh Cursive, you’re so cool

Posted on by Kate Foster

In a twinkle of starry lights, a pumpkin sat, glowing, declaring the band’s name: Cursive. The crowd went wild, screaming and fist-pumping, washing the stage with the kind of excitement usually saved for the headliner – that night, Minus the Bear – as singer and guitarist Tim Kasher took the stage with the rest of…

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Drowning in Knoxville with Belle Histoire

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Belle Histoire interview with www.vinylmag.org by vinylmag It’s pouring down rain outside, and I’m sitting in the back of a dingy Knoxville bar[1] with J-14 Magazine’s featured “hot band” Belle Histoire. But I’m the only one in the bar who knows this about them. “I didn’t even know about,” Wes Comer, the band’s drummer, insists….

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Junius show review

Posted on by Ryan Getz

The Basement played host to a quartet of post-rock and hardcore influenced groups on Wednesday, February 22nd in Columbus.  Junius was co-headlining the show with O’Brother. Sainthood Reps and local group The End of the Ocean rounded out the bill. The End of the Ocean got things rolling, doing their best to engage the sparse…

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An evening with Blink-182

Posted on by Emily McBride

I just went to see blink-182 at Aaron’s Amphitheatre in Atlanta.  This was an incredible show.  I left right after my morning class and got there three hours before the gates were to open (‘cause I’m super cool like that and determined to get up to the front). As soon as they opened the gates, I…

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