BATHS & Young Fathers- Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ 4/11/14 (Show Review)
Will Wiesenfeld, better known as BATHS, took the stage at Crescent wearing a plain T-shirt and gold jogging shorts, looking more bed-head and casual than headlining a packed show. With only one other musician accompanying him mostly on guitar, he had an extremely sparse set with mostly keyboards. He had a kinetic energy, constantly standing up […]
Mirah – The Western, Scottsdale, AZ 3/10/14
Mirah had a “practice tour” with a softly- lit red velvet curtained backdrop at the The Western,, an ideal setting to debut new material from her upcoming album Changing Light as well as re-imagining her back catalog. Mirah and her newest entourage: Alex Guy (violin/viola/keys/vocals), Dan Fabricant (bass/guitar) and Andrew Maguire (drums/ vibraphone) opened the set […]
Cibo Matto – Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix AZ 2/21/14
One of the most anticipated new releases of 2014 aside from Beck and Broken Bells has to be Cibo Matto’ Hotel Valentine (Feb 11th), their first new album since 1999’s Stereo ★ Type A. Hotel Valentine was self-produced over a two-year period by Cibo Matto founders and co-conspirators Miho Hatori and Yuka C. Honda and […]