I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: October 11 & 12, 2025] Alex G / Nilüfer Yanya

I saw Alex G when about ten years ago when he opened for Built to Spill. There was a bunch of buzz around him but I didn’t really know why.  I thought he was a guitar shredding type, but he’s not.  I wrote

At first I was a little unimpressed.  The songs are pretty simple and short–lo-fi recordings, which I do enjoy, but were not what I was expecting.  But by the middle, he had won me over.  The last five or six songs in particular were really good.  The band was pretty no-nonsense–not a lot of banter.  Just song after song, some really short and few with some good extended jamming.

Since then he’s released a lot more music and has seen a lot of success.  I like the songs I’ve heard by him and my daughter is a fan.  He played at All Things Go two years ago, but he was on the other stage and we could only see a video of him.

Because he’s a Philly guy (more or less) he added a second show to the Fillmore.  The first night I had tickets to see My Morning Jacket.  And since we had seen MMJ the night before that as well, there was no energy left for Alex G.

I saw Nilüfer Yanya open for Sharon Van Etten in 2019.  I enjoyed her set quite a lot and have wanted to see her again.  Although I haven’t enjoyed her newer stuff as much as what she put out back then.  She had a headline show last year but I couldn’t make it.

I would have enjoyed this double bill, but not as much as I enjoyed MMJ.