Alabama Shakes
Amoeba Will Be Back This Fall, Let’s Rejoice For Los Angeles
I cannot make a list of all the artists I have seen at Amoeba
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, JANUARY 29TH TO FEBRUARY 4TH
A special 3-day Girlschool 2018 at the Bootleg, featuring Shirley Manson
Arroyo Seco Weekend, Saturday June 24th 2017
undoubtedly the king of Arroyo Seco
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, JUNE 19TH TO JUNE 25TH 2017
opening for the Black Lips
Oldies But Goldies: Alabama Shakes And Drive-By Truckers Last Year
Howard is a great singer but not a great frontwoman
2015 Was A Real Gallery Of Rock Stars For Me
I was lucky, beside Ringo Starr’s 75th birthday (above) I have attended a lot of concerts and events.
Not With The Band: Where Are The Misogynists?
I have attended at least 140 concerts in 2015, and the large majority were about men, males, guys…
ABC Best Of The Year Part 1: Alabama Shakes, Bjork, Courtney Barnett, David Bowie
Four by four, the challenge will be to find an artist, who has been significant for this year, for each letter of the alphabet, and I already have an idea for almost each letter, although Z will be a challenge.
When Was The Last Time Music Blew Your Mind Away?
When was the last time I was left speechless after a show? When was the last time I said it was mind blowing? I am not sure…
Alabama Shakes And Drive-By Truckers At Forest Hills Stadium, Saturday, 19th, 2015, Review
The problem with Alabama Shakes was the arty ones sucked, the new wavy ones added nothing, and the soul songs were incredible but distant. Howard is a great singer but not a great frontwoman, at least and certainly not without close circuit TV. Her performance doesn’t translate, people were polite and not attentive at the same time, they wanted to love Brittany but their attention kept slipping
Alabama Shakes At the Greek Theater, Thursday August 13th 2015 Review
All night-long, her weird howls soared and crashed into intimate whispers of a vulnerable beauty, then rose again into a wall of thunder over wobbling keys and shuffling drums. Even the slower tunes such as ‘Gemini’ or ‘Dunes’ were intense, and she held the audience at the tip of each of her screams, while making strong facial expressions, sweeping the sweat from her eyebrows between songs.
Alabama Shakes At The Greek Theater, Thursday August 13th 2015
Alabama Shakes were fantastic last night, I could only see Brittany Howard from where I was, and I feel sorry for the rest of her excellent band but that’s all I needed to see. She was a force, a fury, commanding the stage like a rock star, and the public was responding to each of her howls with cheers and claps with cheers and claps in a way I have rarely witnessed at a concert.
Alabama Shakes Go Sci-Fi For Their New Video ‘Sound And Color’
The clip was directed by James Frost, and based on a concept by the band’s singer-songwriter Brittany Howard, who had already explained her multi-horizon influences in an interview with Rolling Stone. She said ‘she was inspired by everything from Roberta Flack to the E.T. soundtrack as the band expanded beyond the soulful roots-rock of their debut.’…
10 Songs: Sunday, April 26th, 2015
Gimme All Your Love – Alabama Shakes – This isn’t a career maker, obviously, but it is a big big time soul song that should cement their position as simply one of the best young modernist soul bands in the business: it is where Talking Heads would have been heading if Al Green was the lead singer – A
Forest Hills Stadium’s Rockin’ Summer
Of those I am seeing, Ed is always a blast live and should have no problems rocking the joint. I do wonder if he has an actual band yet? James Taylor I had tickets at MSG last winter but found myself in Florida instead, and Alabama Shakes have a terrific new album, so, yeah, let it rock.
Alabama Shakes’ Signing At Amoeba, Tuesday April 21st 2015
I am blasting ‘Sound & Color’, the new Alabama Shakes album at home, I could not get a ticket to see them in Jimmy Kimmel Live, I wasn’t invited to their intimate performance at Apogee Studios in Santa Monica arranged for the press, but I just got to see their signing at Amoeba on Tuesday night. Better than nothing
10 Songs: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
Shoegaze – Alabama Shakes – What gives with these guys? This is a fuzzed out indie rocker of the first order and while we miss Brittany Howard really wailing, what we get in return is Shakes go indie with the sort of song TVOTR would sneak by us from time to time – A
Sneak Peaks Most Anticipated Albums For The Week of April 20th, 2015
OK, let’s discuss who the most anticipated won’t be. It won’t be Tom Delonge not acting his age again, it won’t be the overrated Speedy Orti, or the overrated Passion Pit or the plaily lousy Yelawolf. I gotta go with Alamaba Shakes, if for no other reason than the first single is the “Tusk” soundalike “Future People” -which is just excellent.