My son and I saw TWRP open for Magic Sword back in 2023 and we loved them. We saw them again when they headlined. And they’re the reason I went to Ninja Sex Party (they opened the show and were NSP’s backing band).
And here they were playing Underground Arts! They were originally supposed to play World Cafe Live but because of a shakeup at the venue, TWRP and several other bands abandoned WCL for other venues. I love Underground Arts but I think WCL would have suited my purposes better (much better sight lines).
I arrived later than I intended and the place was packed. So instead of being on the barrier, I was back a ways behind a whole bunch of tall people. After the first two songs I moved back and off to the side. Not the best view but better than what I had and I could see most of the band just fine.
The previous times that I’ve seen them, they were on pretty big stages, so it was interesting to see them crammed into the small UA stage. But they did fine with it and I was pleased that Phobos the guitarist was always near the front of the stage so he wasn’t hidden by the big pole.
All of the fun aspects of TWRP were in place. Dr Sung on his hoverboard, Dr Sung bragging about his awesomeness and the rest of the band keeping him in check.
This tour’s theme was a weekend camping trip. There were leaves and things around the stage and the whole conceit that they were camping was on full display.
They opened with a new song (and a new chant: party party party party). I haven’t listened to much of the new album. They played 4 songs from it but they did not get rid of crowd faves like Bright Blue Sky (so much fun to sing along to) and of course Atomic Karate (even in this small area he was able to do his high kicks (baby) and use the nunchaku.
The segues into each song are always fun, like when he talks about all of the potential in the room as a warm up to Human Potential. Continue Reading »
[DID NOT ATTEND: October 1, 2025] Chance the Rapper / Adamn Killa / DJ Oreo
I don’t like a lot of young rappers, but I do like Chance the Rapper. He’s more musical than a lot of rappers who tend to do mumble rap. I didn’t really plan to go to this concert, but it’s nice to know he’s back, doing his thing.
Chance’s best friend and DJ, DJ Oreo who performed an energetic opening set to get the crowd ready for the show, however, what really got the crowd turnt up was surprise guest and viral Tik Tok sensation Adamn Killa and his crew of miscreants. Another Chicago native who has found massive online fame for his crazy antics, viral dances, and pitchy rap songs that really know how to get people going. The crowd erupted as he took over the venue and made it his own personal playground.
I was super excited for this show. I wanted to get there early and get right up front for TWRP. But I guess everyone else did too. So I didn’t get a close spot at all. I was annoyed by the people in front of me since they cut in at the least second and blocked about six shorter people.
The only consolation is that they were playing Weird Al as house music–which is a little weird since TWRP are funny, but aren’t comedy music. But whatever, we all enjoyed it.
I’d never heard of Los Angeles Power Disco before this show. The name was pretty funny (especially abbreviated LAPD).
The band came out on the tint stage and the trio crowded right up front. There was a guitarist and a keyboard/bass/guitar player, and there was singer/guitarist Sarah Rayne.
Rayne had been in the band Cobra Man which played what they called Los Angeles Power Disco. Then Cobra Man broke up very acrimoniously and Sarah took the name LAPD.
There was no drummer and honestly I don’t even know if the two guys on stage are part of LAPD or are touring musicians (LAPD has five songs out on Bandcamp, all released in 2025).
Sarah was dressed in a sequined unitard and was super interactive with the crowd. I didn’t love the spot where I was (or the three tall people who jumped in front of us at the last second), so I couldn’t fully see what she was doing, but I know at one point she climbed on the barrier (holding hands with someone up front) and proceeded to high five and have people sing along to “Your. Time. To. Burn.” Continue Reading »
[ATTENDED: September 28, 2025] Doechii-–All Things Go [Day 3]
Her stage was designed like an overgrown jungle. A backdrop of trees and on the stage all kinds of greenery–trees and shrubs and platforms covered in green carpeting. It looked great.
At long last Doechii came out on stage She was wearing a gray blazer and crazy long white finger nails.
She stood on the tall platform and rapped her songs. I don’t know any of her songs and had no idea if she was doing one long song or (as was more likely and true) a whole bunch of short songs.
In between songs she hyped her DJ Miss Milan who hyped her back. Doechii also showed off her moves, with wicked dancing.
Some of her beats were more fun for me than others. I enjoyed Bitch I’m Nice, which had a great beat and interludes as well as fun interjections from her DJ Miss Milan. Miss MIlan made me laugh because it seemed like she was primarily a hype person–“make some noise!”; “it’s Doechii!!”
There was quite a reaction for NISSAN ALTIMA. Her platform lowered and she climbed down to stage level. She took off her blazer and revealed a gray one-piece, which allowed her to shake her ass even more.
They played a sample of America Has a Problem (by Beyonce) and Doechii asked if she could freestyle (yes, she can).
Doechii then left the stage (I know it’s part of the act, but I couldn’t believe she left after ten minutes) and DJ Miss Milan took over getting hands in the air and asking if we had a good time. Doechii came back pretty quickly–I assume to drop off her blazer–and returned for Alter Ego. This one was a real banger. Continue Reading »
I liked Cake when they first came out, but hadn’t really thought much about them in the last 30 years or so. When this show was announced, I read that their live shows were always really good. So I considered getting tickets for my wife and I. I put it off because I know that the venue doesn’t really sell out.
And then my daughter and I wound up going to All Things Go and returned on the 28th, so it was not possible.
But Tito Santana filmed and uploaded the whole show
[ATTENDED: September 28, 2025] Ashe-–All Things Go [Day 3]
I had not heard of Ashe either (apparently I was the only one who hadn’t). She has put out several albums and has worked with some pretty major people (see below).
I was amused to discover that her album titles are her full name: Ashlyn, Rae, and Willson. What will she do next?
I really enjoyed her set and would happily see her again. I need to check out her full albums.
Another Man’s Jeans sounded a bit like Sheryl Crowe–a jangly pop song with an oooooh bridge.
It segued right into Angry Woman with some really funny lyrics
Nobody likes an angry woman/I always say the things that I shouldn’t/Oh what a shame my tongue’s not tied/You can do whatever you want/I’ll do whatever I like.
It also had some really rocking guitars which I rather liked. Emma Harvey played some killer solos.
When she sang The Little Mess You Made, someone handed her a present. And someone else handed her a sash that read “Ashe things Go.” Which she put on backwards (twice) before getting it right. Turns out The Favors is a band that she formed with Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas, which is why it is so damned catchy. Apparently it came out last week. Continue Reading »
[ATTENDED: September 28, 2025] Rachel Chinouriri-–All Things Go [Day 3]
I had enjoyed Ashe and was really curious what Rachel Chinouriri would be like. I hadn’t heard of her either, but I liked her style immediately.
She put has a lot of videos behind her–presumably ones for her music videos.
Her band was great–I really liked her lead guitarist.
The loud and quiet transitions in Cold Call were great.
I loved the whistle melody of It Is What It Is. She had a really funny and enjoyable video that played behind her as she sang. It was great.
A lot of people seemed to know her songs and sing along–plenty of hand waving during the chorus of 23:42. She seemed really appreciative of her audience–both the fans who knew her and the brand new fans. Continue Reading »
[ATTENDED: September 28, 2025] Peach PRC-–All Things Go [Day 3]
After Alemeda, Peach PRC came out.
I had never heard of her. Obviously, I knew about the rapper Peaches, but this was not her. I also didn’t understand what the PRC was all about. (It’s an abbreviation for Porcelain which she felt was too long to type out on social media, huh).
She’s an Australian pop singer and I’m kind of blown away how many Australians play this festival (and how popular so many Australian bands are here… I’m delighted).
So Peach PRC is a pure pop singer. She was on stage with just her and a guitarist–the rest of the music was on backing tracks. And her guitarist shredded like crazy–tons of energy, bouncing around–a perfect complement. Continue Reading »
[ATTENDED: September 28, 2025] All Things Go [Day 3]
And we woke up for Day 3. A nice perk is that the hotel is next to a Royal Farms so I grabbed some fried chicken and their weird Chicken Palooza shirts (on sale for $5 since the Palooza was over).
This day proved to be very confusing because things were shuffled around.
Lola Young was supposed to perform but she got sick the day before and couldn’t make it (this was devastating to me as she was the main person I wanted to see today). And they switched where the final acts were going to perform. DJO was supposed to play just before Kesha at the Pavilion stage and Doechii was supposed to headline the smaller stage. They switched those two (I’m not sure who benefitted from that more). But we didn’t find any of that out until we were there.
We headed over to the venue relatively early because we had to check out of the hotel. I wanted to see Jasmine 4.T because they opened for Lucy Dacus when we saw them but we arrived too late and missed their whole set. So, typical, we arrived near the end of the 20 minute set today too.
They were playing at the Chrysalis Stage and it was really hot. But some nice women shared their picnic tale with us (which was in the shade!) and we enjoyed watching the bands from there.
So we missed Molly Grace entirely since she was on the other stage. As we were making plans for how to handle the rest of the day, they announced that Lola wouldn’t be there. Some bands were moved to different stages and they announced that Doechii would be on the Pavilion Stage rather than the Chrysalis Stage. My daughter was here for Doechii and we had pretty much planned to stay at the Chrysalis Stage all day to see her. So that changed things too.
We stayed at Chrysalis stage to watch Peach PRC (who was famous for having a stripper pole as part of her set) and then we moseyed about getting food and checking merch and we grabbed some seats in the Pavilion just before Ashe came on.
I enjoyed how hard Maude LaTour rocked, but we did watch the videos of Griff and Marina. And at our stage we saw Rachel Chinouriri and Role Model before Doechii came on. Continue Reading »
My daughter and I saw Lucy Dacus on the first night of this tour back in April in Philadelphia. Now, this was officially the last night of the U.S. tour (she did play other shows this year but not in the same way). I had certainly never seen anyone on the first and final nights of a tour, and it was fascinating to see how much the show had morphed over the five months. The set was the same, but the setlist was different. It was shorter (festival timing rather than solo timing) but she also made some changes to what she played.
And the biggest difference was that she had a string quartet playing with her for many of the songs.
My daughter and I rushed to the barricade to get right up close to Lucy and were then shocked that the pit remained largely empty. It wasn’t that people weren’t into her–they were. And the lawn was massively full. I guess no one wanted to give up their seats after the long day?
Anyway we were right on the barrier, but pretty far to the right. So when the quartet sat down, they basically blocked our view of the rest of the stage. My daughter wandered around the pit (it was that empty) for a better view but determined that there wasn’t a better spot. [Although having seen her photos, I think straight on was a much better spot].
The set was the same–a gigantic backdrop designed to look like a museum wall. There were picture frames and columns and it looked amazing. Although from our location off to the side, you could see the video screens that projected the mages. Obviously we knew there were video screens, but the illusion was somewhat lost because the images were skewed a bit.
So the show opened the same way except that the Calliope Prelude had the quartet playing (instead of it being projected). And the quartet stayed on stage for the first few songs. Like in April, the first song was Hot & Heavy, which is a fun way to get the crowd excited. She followed it with her biggest new single Ankles. Continue Reading »
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