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Owl and Bear’s Top 12 Posts of 2012
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Live Review: The Growlers and TRMRS at the Casbah, December 14, 2012
The Growlers‘ crazy live shows are known for their surprises. But the real surprise at the sold-out Casbah last Friday was that relatively obscure opening bands can still bring the house down. Continue reading…
Live Review & Photos: 91X Wrex the Halls, feat. The Killers, M83, Passion Pit, & Tegan and Sara, December 7, 2012
Sometime between the tryptophan food comas of Thanksgiving and the flurry of wrapping paper on Christmas morning, there are a few weeks of radio holiday concerts. If you were thinking about making that special friend a mix CD (or is it just Spotify playlists now?), skip it and just bring them to any of these shows. Continue reading…
Live Review & Photos: Metric at House of Blues, December 8, 2012
Recent decades’ technological advances have produced plenty of bands with strong recorded outputs but weak live shows. The scarcity of wheat across such endless fields of chaff can be frustrating, but it does make the rare display of true live talent all the more enjoyable. Continue reading…
Live Review: Oliver Trolley, The Hampton Beats, and The Hollerin at Seven Grand, November 29, 2012
Whiskey and music are a timeless, enigmatic combination, and SoundDiego combined the two for its most recent live event at Seven Grand in North Park. Continue reading…