Posts Tagged ‘The Barr Brothers’
Sasquatch 2013 Lineup Announced: Mumford & Sons, Postal Service, Sigur Rós, Primus 3D and more
The lineup for this year's Sasquatch Music Festival has been released! Topping this year's massive lineup will be Mumford & Sons, The Postal Service, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, and The XX -- definitely an impressive set and that's just the first six artists. LMB... more
Season’s Greetings from Live Music Blog
Here's a stocking full of holiday songs we've hand picked from the past few years to keep your playlists a little more current than the same ole' offering of Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole. Our seasonal selections range from songs by LCD Soundsystem, My Morning Jacket, Woods, Sufjan... more
ROUNDUP: What Five Bands Should Be Bigger Than They Are (Part Five)
< PART ONE (MONDAY) || PART TWO (TUESDAY) || PART THREE (WEDNESDAY) || PART FOUR (THURSDAY) > Today marks the final day of this week's five-part feature, a project that has produced an interesting and broad-spanning array of passionate responses from contributors and friends of the site. Each day, we've asked... more
ROUNDUP: What Five Bands Should Be Bigger Than They Are (Part Two)
PART ONE (MONDAY) Yesterday, we kicked off a five-day feature in response to the NPR Music What Bands Should be Bigger Than They Are article, with ten different acts (including BATTLES, Anders Osborne and Garage Trois among others) selected by two LMB editors. Today, there are nine different responses because notably,... more
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 Lineup Announced
The massive lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass was just announced and it's absolutely amazing this time around. With LMB regulars like Les Claypool, Rubblebucket, The Barr Brothers, Keller Williams and Steve Kimock with slots on the festival and more classic twangers than you can shake a stick... more
PHOTOS: The Barr Brothers @ Brighton Music Hall, Boston 5/15/12
The Barr Brothers came to Boston this past Tuesday, bringing with them a new self titled album and fresh tour. Brad Barr noted early that it had been years since he’s played on the Brighton Music Hall stage, known then as Harper’s Ferry, and that he and his brother used... more
LMB NYC: Concert Calendar (May 14-20) – Beach House, Barr Brothers, Maps & Atlases, Dumpstaphunk, The Great GoogaMooga
This week in NYC live music is a bit quieter and more random than previous weeks, but still offers up plenty of the goods. For well-crafted singer-songwriter-y stuff, I'm liking The Barr Brothers, Beach House, and Maps & Atlases. For something louder and more fuzz-worthy, don't miss the new combo... more
REVIEW: The Barr Brothers @ Hotel Cafe, LA 4/4/12
Editor's note: Speaking of the Barr Brothers, our friend Aaron in LA has been a fan of the project since the beginning and went and caught the show the night before I did. Unfortunately the timing of our server crash coincided right with the time he had to finish... more
RECAP: Thursday night in SF with The Barr Brothers and Rubblebucket
Last Thursday night I got to get out in my neighborhood to see two amazing bands that have been on constant rotation in my Spotify playlists lately: The Barr Brothers and Rubblebucket. The Barr Brothers is a band that we have been hammering on for a while and they... more
VIDEO: The Barr Brothers Live from the Grand Canyon
Per the now-standard band promo video, we've seen bands play in all sorts of random places...from the insides of cabs, in boiler rooms, on odd-colored couches, on the tops of buildings, and so on and so forth. But I've personally never seen a band play at the edge of... more
TOUR DATES: Barr Brothers to play SXSW, Wanderlust VT & more…
The Barr Brothers are a band holding a very special place in my heart these days and I'm glad to see that they just announced a new set of tour dates keeping them well on the road through 2012. The band is booked for a show at the Montreal... more
VIDEO: The Barr Brothers – “Beggar in the Morning” (Live on Letterman)
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TOUR DATES: The Barr Brothers to play Letterman, World Cafe
I love seeing the news that that The Barr Brothers are making their TV debut (in the US) tomorrow with a stop by Ed Sullivan Studios to play "Beggar In the Morning" for David Letterman... The Barr Brothers kick off 2012 with their national TV debut, performing "Beggar In The Morning"... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 5 – Dec 11)
The NYC live music scene picks up again with a bunch of great shows happening this week, including the Black Keys, the Barr Brothers, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings along with plenty of other highlights. Check it out: As we covered last week, the Black Keys are now set for... more
VIDEO: The Barr Brothers – “Deacon’s Son”
Justin and I may agree to disagree regarding the dubstep jams that he likes or the guitar-driven Steve Kimock funkiness that I like, but we definitely see eye-to-eye on the Barr Brothers. And our buddy Phortin can't say enough, actually.... It's fair to say that we here at LMB are... more
LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 17-23
This week in NYC shows is a crazy one, with the CMJ Music Marathon officially taking over a good chunk of NYC's clubs and venues. CMJ is a bit like NYC's version of SXSW with industry panels, showcase events, day parties, and all manner of nighttime parties and multi-band extravaganzas.... more
The Barr Bros Announce More Fall 2011 Dates (w/ Ben Harper, Deer Tick, Low Anthem & more)
The Barr Brothers just announced a pretty lengthy set of tour dates to add onto their brief jaunt state side earlier this month, including a few dates with solid headliners ahead of them like Ben Harper, Deer Tick, the Low Anthem and more... In case you missed it, our buddy @phortin... more
PHOTOS / REVIEW: The Barr Brothers / Quebec in Hollywood @ El Rey Theatre, LA 9/21/11
Let's just get this out of the way right now. I'm a sucker for anything Brad Barr. If he owned a diner -- I'd let him cook me breakfast. If he drove a bus, I'd be the first one on board. The appreciation for his work... more
Tour Dates: The Barr Brothers Fall/Winter 2011 Dates
Many of you have heard of The Slip and have followed Surprise Me Mr. Davis via this here blog, but one part of that musical creativity that we haven't covered much is the new-ish solo-ish project by The Barr Brothers. They're releasing an album soon with Sarah Page, "a... more
