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Wood's label has put out some great indie rock from a some of my favorite artists over the last handful of years – Anna St. Louis, Bonny Doon, John Andrews & The Yawns, early Kurt Vile, Kevin Morby, White Fence, and has, in turn, been responsible for a bunch of my favorite concerts both pre and post-pandemic shutdown. The Bonny Doon dudes are real nice. I linked a recent set of theirs, my favorite bootleg I've come across on YouTube. I've seen them 5 times now and chatted with them after their last set in Philly.
Woodsist' yearly two-day festival in Accord, NY in 2021 was my first festival coming out of lockdown and was the perfect, laid-back event I was missing. That year I saw Sessa, Cassandra Jenkins, Anna St. Louis, 75 Dollar Bill, Natural Information Society, Woods, Kurt Vile (solo), Kevin Morby, Parquet Courts, and Yo La Tengo – just unreal and so well-curated.
Pictured below: Woods playing in a small bar in Fishtown, September 2023. Anna St. Louis opened on the tail of her recently-released album, In The Air.
Aug 16, 2024
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I saw him on tour with Hamilton. Kevin used to be in Woods, also his former band The Babies were fun.
Feb 15, 2024
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- are all bands I like a lot that I have not heard live but plan on seeing / want to see soon!
Parquet Courts, Big Thief, Yo La Tengo were all great live, and I’d see them again
Feb 8, 2024
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in no particular order
-a place for owls - a denver based indie/emo band with gorgeous writing and lush instrumentation
-LL by The Hellp - the most important electronic/pop album of the 2020s, this album more than justifies their self-mythologizing of the past decade
-Mk.Gee - he's finally getting his flowers thank god but there is nothing else that sounds like two star out there
-Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee - Waxahatchee with MJ Lenderman executive production what more do you need
-Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties - conceptual side project of the lead singer of emo cornerstone The Wonder Years, he plays/writes the character of Aaron West across three beautiful alt country albums
-Venturing - Jane Remover's side project, great rock/contemporary shoegaze, album out valentine's day
Jan 24, 2025
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Get a haircut, get rid of some clothes you haven’t worn in years, get a new houseplant, get in touch with the changing season, get grounded, get stoned, get in touch with some old friends, get some ice cream, get going
Mar 25, 2024
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Overnight low of 62° and it’ll start raining soon :)
Apr 12, 2024
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Friends you met out in the neighborhood at a bar or park or cafe or wherever a couple times and struck up a rapport with.
You don’t have eachother’s phone numbers, no social media info.
I have a couple friends like this and it’s been such a nice social change up. Always a pleasant surprise to bump into them out and about.
Jan 24, 2024