Monday Night in Boston (Labor Day)
The Juan MacLean, DJ Die Young and Baltimoroder, Benefit Friends @ Middle East downstairs
NATALIA, AERODRONE, THE ANIX @ Harper’s Ferry
Kickdrum, Jett And The Writers @ Great Scott
Decades with Matt & Emeen @ Milky Way
♥
In today’s Boston Globe Joan Anderson has a review of Liz Phair’s performance of Exile in Guyville. The piece is quite good even if Phair’s new persona and songs are not.
The disconnect between the tanned, smiling woman on stage at the Paradise and the wry, raw songs she was singing was massive, all the more because the songs have held up so well…
…But Phair denied her followers (and herself?) the pleasures and the insights that can come when a mature musician revisits an early, defining work. She chattered on, but had little to say between songs, and none of it reflected on the music or its resonance unless you count her straw poll to figure out how many people have had sex to “Exile in Guyville.”
Read Anderson’s full review at Boston.com.
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