I'm going to try and write short reviews of each concert I go to from now on, there will be another one posted in a few days of Why? with Astronautalis. That one is a backlog from last week.
The first band on for the night was Icona Pop, an electro-pop duo. They opened with Manners, a song they did with Chiddy Bang, and a great song at that. However, this version was entirely their music for the song turned into a dubstep song. By dubstep I mean what is commonly referred to as "brostep", long drawn out sequences with big drops and a pulsating bass. The crowd loved it, but I was not feeling it at all. The rest of their set was solid though, really upbeat and fun electro-pop driven by synths and their energy on stage. I just can't get into dubstep unless it's something like Burial or I guess Aphex Twin to an extent.
Matt & Kim were on second, and they put on a great show. They have so much energy and a great stage presence live, and were really feeling the crowd and playing off the energy. There is a great on stage chemistry between the duo, which involves lots of joking with each other, jumping on the drums, and the occasional walking on the crowd. They did a couple things I loved, such as a very nice improvised piano intro to Daylight, and also doing a cover of this song. However, they also played Harlem Shake at one point, which made me want to kill everybody in the vicinity. All in all though, they put on a great set.
The headlining band for the night was Passion Pit, touring in support of their highly praised album Gossamer. They had these sweet orbs that would move up and down and change colors in sync with each song, and the light show that accompanied them was one of the coolest things I've seen in a concert. They had a solid set, the crowd was really into their more popular songs, and they seemed to be enjoying themselves. They did not seem as energetic as the first time I saw them though, and did seem to be going through the motions at times. Michael Angelakos voice also wasn't able to hit the highs as well as I remember from when I saw them last spring. But overall I was happy with their performance, though left wanting a little more. Mirrored Sea and Let Your Love Grow Tall were my favorite moments during the concert. The only thing that nearly killed my enjoyment during all three bands was the crowd, there were so many high-school age people there, or even college people there not singing along to any of the songs, just being obnoxious and wearing neon clothing and party shirts/hats. They seemed to be there just expecting to rave or do whatever, and that was very annoying. I do prefer smaller concerts to larger ones though, so there's that bias. The music was fine though and worth the money of the ticket.
That's it for this installment, hopefully any of you reading this enjoyed it. If you have feedback or questions let me know, and if you'd like me to do more of these I'll try to oblige. I'm thinking about starting a pretty basic blog with music and concert reviews.
It's very odd that this post came up in a random search I did, because did you ever do this? I happen to be going to that show tomorrow and I'd like to hear your take on it. Also, I can't get enough of Icona Pop.I'm going to try and write short reviews of each concert I go to from now on, there will be another one posted in a few days of Why? with Astronautalis. That one is a backlog from last week.
I actually forgot about that! I've got so caught up in managing this blog that that one slipped by, but I just took some time and wrote a review, which as since been posted here. Thanks for reminding me! Icona Pop is some pretty good stuff.
I saw Matt and Kim at Coachella and they put a hell of good show. I actually didn't expect a lot and was rewarded with a lot haha. I haven't listened to them since then though.
Been wanting to see Passion Pit for awhile now, I hope they come to my town soon. But they do seem to be obnoxiously popular with the middle school and high school crowd, and not for good reasons. I'll probably see them at least once and put up with the bullshit. On a side note, I'd love to see more of these. I actually write some amateur reviews myself, if you want a contributor if you ever get that blog up and running.
Exactly, the crowd was frustrating to say the least. Hopefully they have out your way. That is really cool, and the more contribution for this project the better. I'm trying to think of how to set one up, I'm currently leaning towards creating a tumblr or wordpress page for it as opposed to full on website (which I don't know how to create). Does anybody have any thoughts on that?
Always start with a free service unless you intend to run a business off it. I recently purchased heroicrpg.com because that's the intended name of the tabletop RPG I've been developing in my off time. I'm not doing it on a tumblr because tumblr is bad for products. Tumblr and wordpress are great for reviews. Worst case scenario, go to godaddy, swallow the disgusting sensation you feel from looking at the site, and you can hand them 25$ to give you your domain name for 2 years. God I feel filthy advertising them but shit, 25$ is so incredibly cheap.
At a certain point it becomes worth that feeling to be able to do what you want to do. I've went ahead and started this up, making a post about on on the music tag.
I don't know how to create either, but I do know tumblr pages seem to be a lot more popular with small time reviewers. I imagine a tumblr would be easier to make and a website could always be constructed alter.
This is great and I look forward to reading more of them. I used to get out and see a lot of music but in the last 2 years (I have a 2 year old daughter) I've not been able to as much. I shall live vicariously through your posts :)
But I will also begin to go see some more live music. It's time I get out there again. Thanks for the motivation. I really enjoyed the song Let Your Love Grow Tall, thanks for the suggestion. Enjoy the Why? show.
Going out to a concert once in a while is always a good thing. Or once a week even...the joys of a having a healthy local music scene. The Why? show was last weekend actually, I'm going to do concerts I've been to over the past couple of months as well.