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June 23, 2022 I love it when a hunch plays out well. I wrote about my intro to DIIV’s music a couple months ago https://jeffrey-farin.medium.com/music-discovery-diiv-3c0057bfe289. They’ve got an upbeat style, with easy, smooth guitars that sounds like a bluesy version of surf music. …

June 16, 2022 June 20, 2022 Los Bitchos was one of the bands that blew away SXSW 2022 back in March. When I returned home I became the first kid on my block (maybe in the country) to own a Los Bitchos t-shirt, and when they announced their US tour…

June 5, 2022 So, it’s been a couple of weeks since my Devo/Dry Cleaning double show night. Like Dexter Morgan, I’m getting antsy for my next live music “kill”. I’ve been flipping through BandsInTown listings. Every night, in the greater New York Area, there are literally hundreds of concerts happening…

May 18, 2022 So, this was supposed to be one of those toss-up nights: Do I go for WAY Old School DEVO, who first played New York in 1977, or up-and-coming Dry Cleaning, a catchy new band from UK? Well, maybe both. Christine and the girls were in Midtown at…

May 13, 2022 Decisions, decisions. Friday night was a toss-up. Every band on the planet is touring, it seems, so it’s just a matter of time before you hit some big conflicts. On Friday, one of my heroes, Bob Mould, was playing a solo electric show at the Newton Theater…

May 12, 2022 OK, so we have a lot to go over here. First off, we have the four Farin brothers — Jeff, Cliff, Larry, and Rob — getting together for a concert for the first time since…..ever??? And, fittingly, it’s for The Offspring, a band that’s been around for…

May 10, 2022 So, first things first. Local man John found the four of us a solid place for drink and victuals at Cozy Royale on Humboldt Street, minutes away from Brooklyn Steel. Great appetizers, burgers, and beverages for our pre-game. And geographically desirable, for many upcoming shows at Brooklyn…

I was a big fan of The Smithereens during the 80’s and 90’s, collecting most of their (vinyl) albums and inflicting them on my young daughters, along with the other punk/pop/rock bands in my collection, during their formative years. The Smithereens hailed from Carteret, New Jersey, and had a straight-ahead…

So, Fontaines DC was the Band That Got Away from my SXSW 2019 visit. Everybody who saw them said they were great, and that I would love them. Not sure how, but I managed to miss all of their SXSW shows, and that was a big miss. Fontaines DC is…