Shawn Donohue, Author at Glide Magazine

Surfer Blood: Astro Coast

Shawn Donohue March 15, 2010 No Comments

This indie band from Florida seems primed to break into whatever sort of big time there is out there these days (lots of followers on Twitter?!?). Astro Coast is engaging guitar rock that blends experimentation and main stream hooks excellently while putting a high value on sing-a-longs and riffing out. This is a surprisingly strong rookie offering and the easiest comparison to draw would be Weezer’s Blue Album as JP Pitts has an air of young Rivers Cuomo about him.

The Blacks: In Sickness and Health (EP)

Shawn Donohue March 9, 2010 No Comments

fter a ten year hiatus The Blacks release this digital EP entitled In Sickness and Health. Well slap me silly and call me Suzy, would ya’ looky there…the first acoustic little ditty is aptly titled “Ten Years”.

Golden Triangle: Double Jointer

Shawn Donohue March 3, 2010 No Comments

Double Jointer is a breezy piece of jangly, lo-fi, garage rock from Brooklyn’s Golden Triangle. A sexually split six-piece (3 Gals, 3 Guys) they come at you with fuzzed-up-high-pitched vocals and driving rhythms that tumble into the ear. Some efforts (“Cinco De Mayo”, “Death To Fame”) aren’t much more then sketches while others (“Neon Noose”) are closer to polished pop. Double Jointer plays like a group’s first record but that’s not to say there aren’t good songs and bits of potential lurking in the corners.

Kats: I Can Levitate (EP)

Shawn Donohue February 10, 2010 No Comments

The Free Ice Cream Crew has come out with another underground hip-hop scorcher via Kats’s Levitate. The Brooklyn based MC boasts all over his “tenth album” and the braggadocios flow abounds, yet he manages to remain rooted in common stories like the tale spun on, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and that title tune, “Levitate”.

Dinosaur Jr.: Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY 1/16/10

Shawn Donohue February 2, 2010 No Comments

You can’t hear the vocals?!? What fucking show do you think this is?!?!” Lou Barlow sarcastically yelled this to an ill informed fan midway through Dinosaur Jr’s ass-kickingly-loud concert at Bowery Ballroom on Saturday night in New York City…and really what the hell was that fan thinking? This is Dinosaur Jr; beasts of feedback, lords of the distortion!

The Duchess and The Duke: Mercury Lounge 1/9/10

Shawn Donohue January 15, 2010 No Comments

Sporting silly fur hats The Duchess and The Duke took the stage at Mercury Lounge in New York City Friday night with only their whiskey soaked voices and a pair of acoustic guitars. While the large noggin adornments may have been needed in the single digit night air, they certainly weren’t necessary in the full house for the early show which the group headed lined.

Gorvette: Lustfully Yours EP

Shawn Donohue January 8, 2010 No Comments

Detroit Female Punks unite with the formation of Gorevette. The group is a linking up of Nikki Corvette and Amy Gore from the Gore Gore Girls, bringing together some powerful pop punk chops crafted into a bouncy sing-along worthy effort titled, The Lustfully Yours EP.

The Megaphonic Thrift: A Thousand Years of Deconstruction

Shawn Donohue December 16, 2009 No Comments

This four piece shoegazing crew from Norway is a rocket blast out of the frozen north. A Thousand Years of Deconstruction contains all the elements for future success, it has punchy fuzzed out punk (“Acid Blues” and “Son of J”), dramatic guitar interplay with dueling vocals (“Exploding Eyes”) even an acoustic come down gets an airing (“Everytime (oxygen)”). The gravy for these disco fries is the EP’s centerpiece; an exhilarating drawn out escapade of deep space audio adventure called “Mad Mary”.

The Pixies: Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY 11/24/09

Shawn Donohue December 2, 2009 No Comments

The Pixies have been back together now for four years touring and reliving their late 80’s heyday. They haven’t recorded any new material, instead they choose to focus on their most acclaimed work and tonight they played their best album Doolittle in its entirety.

Bob Dylan: United Palace Theatre, New York, NY 11/19/09

Shawn Donohue November 30, 2009 No Comments

Bob Dylan shifts and changes his live performances so much it has become an adventure to dissect his tunes from tour to tour. A constant tinkerer, his arraignments are fluid and give him space as an artist to express himself with those he chooses to place onstage. The current outing finds him playing with four familiar players that he has toured with over the last few years and one from his not-too-distant past. Charlie Sexton returned to the lineup on lead guitar and added a chicken fried layer of playing that has jolted Dylan into some powerful sonic structures this time around the world.

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