Album Review: Belle and Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Published by JB on January 24, 2015 Release date: January 19, 2015 9/10 “We move in space, and we can move in time Everything existed right from the start” from ‘The Power of Three”, Belle and Sebastian Stuart Murdoch always wanted to
Album Review: Echodrone – Five
8.5/10 Release date: February 24, 2015. Published January 13, 2015 by JB San Francisco’s shoegaze quintet Echodrone is raising their own bar – and at just the right time. Beginning out of the blue in early 2013 and through the
TWTHS Top Ten Albums of 2014
Published December 31, 2014, published by Joe Stadele and Jeff Becker 2014 may have been the best year in music in 20 years. The fact Pink Floyd even released a new album, their first in 20 years, speaks for
TWTHS Top Ten Concerts of 2014
Published December 31, 2014 by Jeff Becker and Joe Stadele 2014 was an incredible year for music and live performances. Photographers for The Way That He Sings covered over a hundred shows in 2014, from St. Vincent and The Black Keys
Concert Review: The Black Keys and St. Vincent at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO – Dec. 21, 2014
The Black Keys and St. Vincent in Kansas City. Published by JB on December 22, 2014 Old school Americana meets 2015 American art The wicked, stoic, robotic, mesmerizing, stutter-step style of Annie Clark with her virtuoso skills under the moniker of St.
Album Review: Foxygen – …And Star Power
Published by JB on November 29, 2014. Release date: October 14, 2014. 7/10 ….And Hints of Greatness Brazen, 2-LP set is all over the board with more spaced-out 60’s and early-70’s flourishes Borrowing absolutely nothing from the last 3 decades
Concert Review: The Smashing Pumpkins at Thalia Hall in Chicago, IL – Nov. 26, 2014
Photography courtesy Joe Stadele for TWTHS, published 11/30/2014. Fans of The Smashing Pumpkins had a lot to give thanks for this Thanksgiving; particularly those lucky to get their hands on a ticket to the bands’ surprise hometown performance on November
Concert Review: First Aid Kit at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN – November 20, 2014
Published by Joe Stadele, 11/23/2014. Photography courtesy Joe Stadele Photography. “All of these ghost towns I keep travelling through, All these traffic signs and lonesome bars blind the view…but there are things that line my path I just have to
Album Review: The Rosebuds – Sand+Silence
Published November 22, 2014 by JB Release date: August 5, 2014 8/10 The ear test for any new Rosebuds album is if their album can continue the steam often generated by the lead-off track. Historically, their wonderful indie pop
Album Review: Tweedy – Sukierae
Published November 19, 2014 by JB Release date: September 23, 2014 8/10 As indie rock evolves from one trend to the next, it remains largely in love with bands that find a way to do it their way, and do
Concert Review: FKA Twigs & Prince in Minneapolis, Nov 14-15, 2014
Photos and review by Joe Stadele for TWTHS, Nov. 16 2014 While a slew of major acts, including Garth Brooks, Motley Crue and Interpol played neighboring clubs/arenas in Minneapolis, it was FKA Twigs who proved to be the standout musical
Concert Review: Vance Joy at Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, MN – November 10, 2014
Photography and review by Joe Stadele for TWTHS, November 13, 2014 Vance Joy has had quite a year. With a strong debut album, Dream Your Life Away, one of the funnest, tongue-in-cheek videos of 2014 (“Riptide”), and not to mention
Concert Review: Alt-J at Myth Live in Maplewood, MN – October 31,2014
Photos courtesy Joe Stadele Photography for TWTHS, published 11/2/2014 As Halloween performances go, fan anticipation is always high. Costumed fans came out to the Myth Live in droves, from Mario & Luigi, to Sexy Fill-in-the-Blank, to the cast of Game of
Concert Review: Bear’s Den at Fine Line in Minneapolis, MN – October 29, 2014
Photos and review by Joe Stadele for TWTHS, published 10/31/2014. Openers: Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Christof “Now would be a good time to have a Shania Twain song, but unfortunately, we just do really sad songs,” jokingly insisted Andrew Davie. While
Album Review: Basement Apartment – Basement Apartment
Published by JB on October 26, 2014 Release date: October 28, 2014 9/10 Eponymous third LP from the best-kept secret in Minneapolis fulfills their decade-long trifecta of lo-fi pop and rock It’s rather fitting that Vince Caro and Basement Apartment
Concert Review: Dum Dum Girls/Ex Cops at High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI – October 23, 2014
Published by JB on October 25, 2014 “Under these hands Hide strings of light I pull them to me To make me feel alright” from ‘Under These Arms’ by the Dum Dum Girls, 2014 Relishing from nearly 5 years of
Concert Review: Dum Dum Girls/Ex Cops at Fine Line – Minneapolis, MN – October 22, 2014
Photos/Published by Joe Stadele for TWTHS, 10/24/2014 Is their another female-driven band with the nonchalant cool and swagger of Dum Dum Girls? Dee Dee and company projected pure confidence as they performed their latest album, Too True, from start-to-finish,
Concert Review: Ryan Adams at Northrop Auditorium – Minneapolis, MN – October 13, 2014
Published by Joe Stadele, 10/16/2014. Photos courtesy Joe Stadele. “Sorry we got lost trying to find the stage,” Ryan Adams apologized as he and his band, The Shining, took stage. “For real, we couldn’t find the fucking stage! This
Concert review: Sharon Van Etten / Tiny Ruins at Gabes – Iowa City, IA – October 13, 2014
Published by JB on October 15, 2014 A budding superstar like Sharon Van Etten, even in her most humble moments, has to scratch her head at the hills and valleys of worldwide touring. Moving from venues such as Minneapolis’s
Concert review: of Montreal / Pillar Point at Woolys – Des Moines, IA – October 7, 2014
Published by JB on October 16, 2014 The most prolific man in indie pop shows that it’s not all studio gimmicks At the age of 40 Kevin Barnes seemed to hit a crossroads in the past 12 months. An endless
Album Review: Prince – Art Official Age / 3rdEyeGirl – PlectrumElectrum
Updated by JB on November 19, 2014 Art Official Age – 6.5/10 Plectrum Electrum – 6/10 Where have you gone Dorothy Parker? Art Official Age Release date: September 30, 2014 In 1990, at the remarkable young age of 31, Prince received a
Concert Review: Phantogram at The Myth Live in Minneapolis, MN – October 1, 2014
Published by Joe Stadele, 10/03/2014. Photography courtesy Joe Stadele Photography. “Thank you Twin Cities. Thank you so much for being with us tonight,” exclaimed Phantogram vocalist Sarah Barthel. “Minneapolis/St. Paul is my favorite place to play in America. I
Concert Review: St. Vincent / Sondre Lerche at the House of Blues in Cleveland , OH. – September 30, 2014
Published by JB on October 3, 2014 I haven’t decided if St. Vincent is simply Annie Clark’s brilliant alter-ego, or if Annie Clark is just a sublime member of St. Vincent, the band. What’s known for certain is that St. Vincent is
Concert review: Lykke Li at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN – September 28, 2014
Published by Joe Stadele, 09/30/2014. Photos courtesy Joe Stadele Photography. If sitting around watching reruns of The Voice is your forte, Sunday night would have been a perfect opportunity to turn off the television and experience one of the most
Concert review: Ty Segall at Turf Club in St. Paul, MN – September 24, 2014
Published by Joe Stadele, 09/26/2014 To understand The Manipulator Band is to accept about their history. Their manager, Jimmy Longhorn, is a fast talkin’, horse lovin’, space cowboy who owns a saloon on the fourth moon of Jupiter. The Manipulator Band are
Album Review: U2 – Songs of Innocence
Published by JB on Sept 21, 2014 7/10 Is it worth the 5-year wait, and the dilemma of the middle-aged rock star If you close your eyes during your first listen to Songs of Innocence and imagine that this is the
Album Preview: Pink Floyd – The Endless River
Published by Joe Stadele for TheWayThatHeSings.com; Sept. 22, 2014 “The grass was greener, The light was brighter, The taste was sweeter, The nights of wonder, With friends surrounded, The dawn mist glowing, The water flowing, The endless river…forever and ever”
Concert review: Spoon / EMA at the State Theater – Minneapolis, MN – September 19, 2014
Published by JB on September 20, 2014 Why can’t I wake up and just be Britt Daniel? One look into the eye of Britt Daniel as he stumbles through a few muffled, spoken words between songs during Friday night’s rock