[ATTENDED: April 28, 2017] Pinegrove
I first heard Pinegrove on NPR and then I saw their Tiny Desk Concert. I really liked them and when they announced that sales of their online music would send all proceeds to Planned Parenthood, I knew I had to buy their tunes. I was also swayed by the fact that they are from Montclair, NJ, a town not to far from where I grew up.
They have been getting fairly popular as of late which I think is wonderful. And I hope that they continue to thrive and get bigger and bigger. So that when they are opening for someone at Madison Square Garden, I can say I saw them in a church basement with 600 other people (tickets sold out pretty quickly and I saw people were offering their first-born children for a ticket).
I have never been to a concert where the audience knew and loudly sang every word to nearly every song. By my reckoning, everyone knew every word to every song on Cardinal, their full length debut. There are 8 songs on it and the band played 7 of them–not in order–during their 16 song set. In fact when they opened the show with “Old Friends” the first song on the disc, the room erupted singing along to every word. And since it was such a small place–with particularly low ceilings–it was the loudest singalong I’ve ever heard. Check out these clips from “Cadmium.” It was very cool. (more…)
