Troubadour

Junip At The Troubadour, Wednesday May 29th 2013

By Alyson Camus | June 1, 2013

Last time I saw them they were a trio, but this time there were five musicians behind José Gonzalez, who was finger picking his guitar, standing in the middle of the stage. Around him, Tobias Winkerton on moog synth, Elias Araya on drums, as well as three other persons on tropical percussion, more synth and bass,

METZ At The Troubadour, Monday April 29th 2013

By Alyson Camus | May 2, 2013

Alex Edkins on guitar and main vocals, Hayden Menzies on drums and Chris Slorach on bass came on stage and right away played ‘Dirty Shirt’, and their huge sound, eardrum-bleeding-skull-crashing-tinnitus-giving sound, never left the room during their entire set

White Lung At The Troubadour, Monday April 29th 2013

By Alyson Camus | May 2, 2013

The almost all-girl band (there was actually one guy for three girls) was playing a fast and stormy music, with guitar and bass in constant assaults, speedy drumming, and aggression all over the place

Pony Boy At The Troubadour, Tuesday, April 9th, 2013, Reviewed

By Alyson Camus | April 13, 2013

She calls her music ‘Junkyard Country’, and yes there was a little bit of everything, sometimes openly country, sometimes more folky, or bluesy, all genres connected by the same doomed Americana mood

Clairy Browne & The Bangin' Rackettes At The Troubadour, Tuesday April 9th 2013

By Alyson Camus | April 12, 2013

‘some grow, some struggle’,… ‘and they are no longer able to create that vision when there is too much exposure’,… ‘Don’t strangle artists, so they can continue to create!’… It had to be about Amy Whinehouse, right?

Lord Huron At The Troubadour, Thursday, May 31st 2012

By Alyson Camus | June 4, 2012

the tropical rhythms, the steel drums, the bright African guitars, but not the Vampire Weekend way, no Lord Huron is more eerie, more abstract, more on the dreamy side, they attack the large open spaces, climb the high mountains and cross the mighty seas.

Active Child At The Troubadour, Thursday May 31st 2012, Reviewed

By Alyson Camus | June 3, 2012

the kind of music that could make you travel through a space hole, forget about time while transporting you into another dimension. His majestic music is truly unusual, progressively building a transcendent emotion

Vetiver at the Troubadour on Wednesday, August 10, 2011

By Alyson Camus | August 13, 2011

‘Cause I don’t want to be anywhere but right here tonight’…

Waters at the Troubadour on Wednesday, August 10, 2011

By Alyson Camus | August 13, 2011

big, loud, sweaty and intense