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View Now >>Folk troubadours Jessica Lea Mayfield and Nathaniel Rateliff played to an intimate crowd at the Fox Theatre on Monday. Photos by Brittany Moore, heyreverb.com.
Surfers aren’t the only ones who ride big waves. Singer-songwriter Jessica Lea Mayfield and fellow acoustic troubadour Nathaniel Rateliff have been riding pretty epic swells of their own of late (namely in the form of industry buzz). Buoyed by exhaustive globe-trotting tours, heaps of SXSW praise, and gritty major-label debut albums — both acts converged at the Fox Theatre on Monday night greeted by a sparse and tepid crowd. It seems that not every one is swooning over them (at least not after graduation at CU).
Rateliff, who for this show reunited with his regular backing-band, Fairchildren, came out swinging with new material and the resounding splash of “Whimper and Wail.” But the flat crowd never really clicked with his set list and most didn’t know when to clap — which left Rateliff noticeably bemused. He pressed on with tight renditions of “You Should’ve Seen The Other Guy” and “Shroud.” And in a final stroke of poise, a solo Rateliff belted-out a defiant “My Hanging Surrender” to (alas!) emotive applause.
Le Butcherettes at Flamingo Cantina during SXSW 2011. Photo by Ricardo Baca, heyreverb.com.
Gallons of new music flow through the holes in our mailboxes each week, and we can’t review it all. A few of us saw Le Butcherettes at South by Southwest this past March, and they’ve been a conversation topic ever since. The video below is rad, scary and, well, quite indicative of their live show.
Beastie Boys, “Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2″ (Capitol)
The Beastie Boys’ latest platter is a fascinating, encompassing listen. Not only does it feature the group’s three MCs Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D — rocking it old-school, expectedly silly — but it also posits them as the hip-hop elder statesmen they are, wrinkles and all.
The disc features the Boys as the name — dropping jokesters fans love, but it’s also a reminder of the group’s greatest challenge to date. While other rappers brag about beating murder raps, MCA (a.k.a. Adam Yauch) beat cancer — a diagnosis that postponed this record’s release in 2009.
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