Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Savages at Pitchfork on Saturday.
Cristo: Incredible as usual.
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2. Car Seat Headrest at Pitchfork on Friday.
Cory: Ill at ease.
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3. Miguel at Pitchfork on Sunday night.
MAT Mag Kat: Absolute murder.
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4. Thundercat at Pitchfork on Sunday night.
Anderson: Blown away.
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5. Melomaniac at Subterranean on Friday night.
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6. Propaganda at Subterranean on Friday night.
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7. The Living Deads at Subterranean on Friday night.
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8. Brian Wilson at Pitchfork on Saturday night.
Kot: Looks like a bystander at his own concert.
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9. Blood Orange with Carly Rae Jepsen at Pitchfork on Saturday.
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10. Shamir at Pitchfork on Friday night.
Kot: Deserves a bigger stage.
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11. G. W. Sok and Action Beat at the Burlington on Friday night.
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12. John Carpenter at Thalia Hall on Saturday night.
Setlist.
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13. Digable Planets at Pitchfork on Saturday.
Mullane: Delivered the cool.
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14. Beach House at Pitchfork on Friday night.
Gendron: Yawn.
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15. Whitney at Pitchfork on Friday.
Lucke and Cavazos: Sounds like what sipping a nice craft beer feels like.
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16. Holly Herndon aftershow at Constellation on Sunday night.
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17. Moose Blood at Subterranean on Saturday night.
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18. Helmet at an Open Air Festival aftershow at the Double Door on Friday night.
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19. Bulldozer at Reggies for Metal Threat Fest on Friday night.
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20. Exciter at Metal Threat on Friday night.
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21. Holy Ghost! at Pitchfork on Sunday.
Amato: A pleasant surprise.
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22. Woods at Pitchfork on Sunday.
Gendron: Rustic, peaceable, strolling.
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23. Neon Indian at Pitchfork on Sunday.
Dance-rock victor or Men at Work?
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24. Sun Ra Arkestra at Pitchfork on Sunday.
Long: Primed the hyperdrive with spiraling melodies.
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25. FKA Twigs at Pitchfork on Sunday night.
Kot: Both fascinating and forbidding.
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26. Sufjan Stevens at Pitchfork on Saturday night.
Lipschutz: Perplexing.
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27. Super Furry Animals at Pitchfork on Saturday.
Mullane: A good weird.
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28. Girl Band at Pitchfork on Saturday.
Johnston: Love.
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29. Jenny Hval at Pitchfork on Saturday night.
Gendron: The most bizarre showing in Pitchfork history.
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30. Old Grand Dad at Subterranean on Friday night.
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31. JD McPherson at SPACE in Evanston on Thursday night.
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32. Trevor Hall at Park West on Thursday night.
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33. Tallest Man on Earth at the Vic on Friday night.
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34. Broken Social Scene at Pitchfork on Friday night.
Cory: I still don’t understand how they work.
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35. Oneohtrix Point Never at Pitchfork on Sunday night.
Gendron: Nightmarish and alienating.
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36. Aaron Neville at City Winery on Thursday night.
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Comments welcome.
Posted on July 18, 2016