[ATTENDED: July 21, 2023] Blondshell
Blondshell is a new band created by Sabrina Teitelbaum. She has recorded music under BAUM, but wanted to go in a different direction and so created Blondshell (great name).
I’d heard a couple of songs by her and she was generating a lot of buzz. I bought a ticket to see her (and Hello, Mary, another young band I like a lot) at PhilaMOCA. The show sold out soon after.
And then I got invited to a party for my friend’s son. I gladly blew of the show to go to the party. But when it was announced that Blondshell would do the Free at Noon this week, I immediately grabbed a ticket.
The band played eight songs. I really enjoyed their guitarist playing some really noisy guitar solos especially at the end of “Veronica Mars.”
The song I know and really like is “Joiner” which sounded great.
And I was impressed that Sabrina sings mostly in a kind of low dirgey style but that she can really belt out when it’s time for it. She has some really strong pipes.
“Dangerous” is a slow ballad. There was a small pocket of fans to my left who sang along to every word, which was pretty fun.
She didn’t mention the band at all. But she did seem delighted with the idea of us being there at noon to watch her.
Free at Noon is typically half an hour, which isn’t great, but is certainly good. But it turns out that her headline set is only 50 or so minutes, so I didn’t miss all that much. I do see that she covered Le Tigre’s “Decepticon” which I’d like to hear from her, but otherwise I got to hear everything I wanted to hear.
She seemed very confident on stage although she wasn’t especially animated. I wonder if that’s her or if in a couple years she becomes a wild woman up there. Whatever the case, it was fun to catch her this early in her career.
- Veronica Mars ¢
- Cartoon Earthquake §
- Sepsis ¢
- Joiner ¢
- Olympus ¢
- Dangerous ¢
- Salad ¢
- Tarmac ¢
¢ Blondshell (2023)
§ single (2022)
Songs she played at PhilaMOCA that night that she didn’t play at Free at Noon
- Veronica Mars ¢
- Cartoon Earthquake §
- Sepsis ¢
- Charm You (Samia cover)
- Sober Together ¢
- Joiner ¢
- Decepticon (Le Tigre cover)
- Street Rat
- Olympus ¢
- Dangerous ¢
- Kiss City ¢
- Tarmac ¢
- It Wasn’t Love [new song]
- Salad ¢
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