Tag: Speedy Ortiz

New Music Monday – 7/17/17

For this week’s post, we have new work from: *Pierce Edens *The Powder Room *Speedy Ortiz *Greta O. and The Toxic Shock *King Gizzard and The Wizard Lizard Enjoy! Pierce Edens Asheville, N.C. Stripped Down Gussied Up Pierce Edens and…

bill’s 2015 year in review

We don’t get too personal here at hissing lawns, but no one lives in a vacuum. 2015 has been a stressful year for me personally, including some high highs plus a couple of very low lows: my father died in…

8 Shaky Knees acts you should have seen (but probably didn’t)

The attendance seemed pretty strong to me throughout the 3-day Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, and all the acts here had fairly good crowds. But more people should have turned out for all of them — a lot more. It’s…

a quick take on Shaky Knees day 2 with The Avett Brothers, Social Distortion, Interpol, lots more

Day 2 of Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta featured more of the same from day 1: great music and sound, big crowds, bright sun. I spent a little less time wandering on the second day than I did on the…

a quick take on day 2 of Savannah Stopover 2014

Just a short post here with a few pics from my Friday at the 2014 Savannah Stopover. We’ll have some larger photo galleries and other posts coming up in the next few days. I’m so glad I forced myself to…

Savannah Stopover 2014 Spotlight: Speedy Ortiz

Speedy Ortiz racked up a ton of accolades at the end of 2013. You’re hard-pressed to go to any blog that put out some sort of year-end best-of list and not see Speedy Ortiz somewhere on someone’s list. And there’s…