Samantha Moore want to marry Decemberists’ frontman Colin Meloy, so she went to see his acoustic show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and wrote this review:

I was a little weary when my friend Dorit asked me to go see Colin Meloy’s solo show. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Decemberists, but I didn’t know if he was going to play just solo stuff, or Decemberists stuff or what, and I didn’t really want to risk my $30. But I realized that I should go, because, let’s face it, Colin Meloy is amazing, and I should be taking more chances in my life anyways.

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I didn’t always hate going to shows early to catch the opening band. I didn’t always think that there might be something on TV way more exciting than seeing whomever was playing live in the support slot of whatever band I was seeing. No, I wasn’t always like that until I started seeing shows in the emo/punk circut and got bored by their same-ness. They were all simmilarly awful.

I need to get out of that funk and belief. In the past two weeks I’ve seen shows with opening bands that I’ve fallen instantly in love with. First was Cheif opening for Duke Spirit (omgomgomgomg I love the duke spirit album Neptune is my soundtrack!!!!!!), and lastnight was The Republic Tigers opening for Jukebox the Ghost.
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Almack’s Dance Hall contributor, Samantha Moore, got her mind blown at the Crystal Castles show the other night. Thankfully, she was still able to turn in this review:

I wasn’t planning on going to see Crystal Castles last night. In my head I was telling myself that I had to work at 8 am, and I had school after that, and I had gotten 2 hours of sleep the night before. But being the NME slave that I am and being the NME darlings that they are, I just. couldn’t. help it. I had only heard a few of their songs before, but their live show was supposed to be incredible, so I couldn’t resist the urge to find out what the hype was all about.

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Almack’s Dance Hall Contributing writer, Samantha Moore, went to see the Crib’s last night and survived… barely. Here’s her report:

The Cribs hold a very special place in my heart. They were the first band I ever saw live way back when I was just a wee Catholic schoolgirl. They were opening for Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab For Cutie in May 2006. This was a period in my life when I had just recently started down the road to musical obsession and this concert was sort of like my induction to the British Indie Fan Club. To this day, they remain one of the only bands I have seen live and instantly fallen in love with without ever having heard any of their music. Last night when I saw them at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, it was like the experience I had two years ago, but like times a million.

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