New live review/photos: Santogold @ Saint Andrews Hall


Santogold show review on filter-mag.com

On Saturday a couple of friends and I ventured from East Lansing to Detroit to see Santogold, whose album I have pretty much been wearing out on my computer … I would’ve had to wait hours to see her at Central Park Summerstage in July (but didn’t get in), but Michigan is no New York. So, I was really curious what the crowd would be like and guessed that maybe Saint Andrews would be pretty empty. And it was. We’re talking balcony blocked off and floor half full (and the venue only has a thousand-person capacity).

The show was a ton of fun though — we danced and danced, more so during the second and third openers (Plastic Little and A-Trak) than during Santogold, but that’s OK.

Santogold’s setlist:

“You’ll Find A Way”
“L.E.S. Artistes”
“Shove It”
“Say Aha”
“Lights Out”
“Anne”
“My Superman”
“Guns of Brooklyn”
“Icarus”
“Starstruck”
“Creator”

Encore:
“Get It Up”
“Unstoppable”

Lots of photos after the jump!

New music feature: Lykke Li

Lykke Li on Billboard.com

Lykke Li (pronounced something like “licky-lee”) is awesome, but I’ll be completely honest: This interview was tough. I had a huge list of questions and my interview was over in less than 12 minutes. I was pretty sure she had been doing press all day and she’s probably sick of it, so she gave me a lot of short answers and I kinda freaked out afterward. After I got over it I think the story turned out OK. I still think she’s rad though, so check out her MySpace and Web site, and her album Youth Novels, which is definitely going on my best of ’08 list.

New music feature: Amanda Palmer


(photo by me, from Amanda Palmer’s Aug. 11 show at Spiegelworld in Manhattan)

Dresden Dolls frontlady Amanda Palmer’s Ben Folds–produced solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, comes out on Tuesday (Sept. 16) and I highly recommend picking up a copy because it is amazing. I think she’s touring again sometime this fall and I am crossing my fingers for a Michigan date!

I interviewed Amanda about a month ago, before her show at Spiegelworld in Manhattan, and my story is finally up on venuszine.com (read it here!).

Amanda Palmer’s MySpace
My review of Amanda Palmer’s NYC show
The Dresden Dolls’ MySpace
The Dresden Dolls’ Web site

New music feature: Theresa Andersson

After listening to Swedish musician Theresa Andersson’s song “Na Na Na” and then watching her video for it (which has gotten more than 714,000 views on YouTube) I automatically said, “Oh my god, need to write about her.” The video — and pretty much the whole album — was recorded in her kitchen at home in New Orleans, where she’s lived for half of her life. Her debut album, Humming Bird, Go! was released on Sept. 2 and it’s amazing, so check it out!

Read my venuszine.com story here.
Theresa Andersson’s MySpace
Video for “Na Na Na”

Since when does Michigan get good shows?

Granted, there are still plenty of awesome tours not hitting the mitten this fall (Mountain Goats/Kaki King, Okkervil River, Jenny Lewis …), but considering it’s tough for me to get out to Detroit, Pontiac or Grand Rapids during the school year anyway, I’m looking forward to some awesome stuff in the next couple of months.

The most exciting though (just announced today!):

Santogold, hellllll yes.

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