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Dawes Delight Beacon Theatre with New Album

Dawes – Beacon Theatre – April 12, 2025

Some bands leave musical bookmarks in our lives, and for this writer, Dawes are one of them. Led by brothers Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, they’ve collaborated with musicians from the Black Crowes to Taylor’s wife, Mandy Moore. And I first saw them live at their collaborative height, performing at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival as members of the folk supergroup Middle Brother, alongside Delta Spirt’s Matt Vasquez and Deer Tick’s John McCauley. Having been affected by the Eaton Fire, Dawes lent their musicianship to fundraise for the L.A. Fire Relief, playing “Time Spent in Los Angeles�� at January’s FireAid benefit and anchored the opening of this year’s Grammy Awards with “I Love L.A.” with a star-studded lineup of Sheryl Crow, Brad Paisley, Brittany Howard, John Legend and St. Vincent. 

These consummate partners graced the stage at the Beacon Theatre on Saturday, supporting their latest album, Oh Brother. Opening with the lead track, “Mister Los Angeles,” Dawes kicked in a rollicking evening that featured both new and old favorites. Concertgoers were quickly engaged, singing along to “Fire Away,” as the space was halved, with stage right harmonizing to “When you need someone to walk away from” and the left took the high harmony. Taylor reflected on “Time Spent in Los Angeles,” having sung it for more than a decade and how much of his life has been altered by the L.A. fires. He expressed gratitude for the support of his community and for fans in attendance on Saturday night. 

In a truly memorable moment, Taylor took to the stage solo acoustic for the fan-favorite “When My Time Comes,” off the band’s 2009 debut LP, North Hills. The crowd was rapt with the quieter delivery of the often stadium level anthem. Regardless of its tenderness, folks couldn’t help but croon the chorus. Drummer (and younger brother) Griffin took the lead on Oh Brother’s “Enough Already,” while an acknowledgement for the effort to get out on a Saturday evening introduced “House Parties.” Taylor took to the keys for “A Little Bit of Everything,” and concluded the set with their 2015 album’s title track “All Your Favorite Bands.” To cap off the show, the band returned to play Randy Newman’s “ I Love L.A.,” which was joking suggested as a song that New Yorkers might enjoy for the first time. —Sharlene Chiu | @Shar0ck

Photos courtesy of Katie Dadarria | www.instagram.com/dadarria

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Mandy, Indiana — i’ve seen a way (Fire Talk)

There are plenty of different ways for a record to be overwhelming. We sometimes talk of great pop music as undeniable, as if solid enough craft has its own kind of inexorability. There is of course pure sonic and/or conceptual extremity (heck, there’s a whole book on that if you’re interested), and in even more subjective waters we can each find our personal limits when it comes to emotional intensity. Mandy, Indiana have made an LP that has some familiarity with most of those realms, but also shows off one other particular kind of overwhelming. i’ve seen a way can seem at first both thorny and kaleidoscopic in construction, a discombobulating whirl of a record. But it has a sneaky way of reconfiguring your expectations, so that even listeners who don’t know quite what to make of it may find it evolving from patchwork to singular statement even as they’re listening.

For Anglophones, at least, there’s one immediate barrier here; although the quartet formed in Manchester, vocalist Valentine Caulfield sings entirely in her native French. The kinetic and sonic force of her vocals are present regardless of linguistic background, but translating turns up everything from a list of things men have said to her about her body (the fierce “Drag [Crashed]”) to… instructions for video game players (the stiff robo-grooves of “Injury Detail”). The rest of the band (Alex Macdougall on drums, Simon Catling on synths, Scott Fair on guitar and production) match her range and radical force. If you want to start tracking down rough genre referents for i’ve seen a way you’ll be grabbing pieces from post-punk, synthwave, industrial, noise, and more and spotwelding them together, less worried about achieving seamlessness and instead taking pride in the visible joins. Most bands don’t display the kind of range found here, for example from the seesawing, shuddering blare of “Peach Fuzz” to the fervid steamcloud ambience of “(ノ>ω<)ノ :。·:*:·゚’★,。·:*:♪·゚’☆ (Crystal Aura Redux),” let alone sequence those examples next to each other.

At times, like when the menacing, cavernous “2 Stripe” evokes a half-dub of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine or when the brief “Mosaick” overdrives vocals, cymbals, and various grinding noises into the red, it’s easy to feel in the moment like you’ve gotten a bead on what Mandy, Indiana “does.” But then they immediately pivot somewhere you might not have immediately expected (to the placid feedback howls of “Iron Maiden” and the cyberpunk motorway music of “The Driving Rain (18),” respectively). And miraculously enough these shifts always feel like they make sense, even like they’re building to something. Mandy, Indiana are still a pretty young band; 2021’s … EP was a thrilling and promising debut, and i’ve seen a way is a lot more than that. If they keep improving (and expanding) at this rate, the prospect of what that might do is almost a little scary. Overwhelming, even.

Ian Mathers

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Broken Gold Tap Power Pop Influence On New Single “Fault”

Broken Gold today share the glistening power pop ripper “Fault”. The track is the final single to be released in advance of the band’s second studio full-length Wild Eyes. On an album that is riven with reflection, “Fault” stands as a particularly striking testament to realization. From the opening salvo, “Feeling like the living dead, The dream had died inside my head” Broken Gold singer/guitarist Ian MacDougall navigates the equally cursed and blessed nature of being a touring musician. Years spent playing stages in places you’ve always dreamed of, all the while watching your home life disintegrate as relationships are strained and an exhausting never-ending search is undertaken for part time jobs to fill the downtime. It’s a topic close to the heart of seasoned road dog MacDougal, who’s served lengthy stints with Band Of Horses and a legion of punk and crust bands, as well as over 20 years as a founding member of beloved Texan punks Riverboat Gamblers. Notes MacDougal, “it’s sort of a cautionary tale in a way.  Be careful what you wish for. This one’s about crumbling under pressure, constantly feeling like you’re getting tested and that you’re always at odds with everything but at the heart of everything you have to admit that you yourself are a root of the problems you’re having.” “Fault” is taken from the upcoming Broken Gold album Wild Eyes, which is set for release on May 3rd via Austin hometown label Chicken Ranch Records. Wild Eyes was announced in January with the soul-searching single “Spiraling” and was followed by the raucous “Bad Days” which featured local legend Alejandro Escovedo on guest vocals. The album name, Wild Eyes, is a nod to a lyrical phrase shared both by the album track “Shambling”, as well in Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town”. The Thin Lizzy reference is one that always resonated with MacDougall who felt the line “guess who just got back today, them wild eyed boys that had been away” summed up the fried feeling of arriving home after weeks on tour. The collection of songs that make up Wild Eyes reach across genre boundaries to showcase the technical versatility and emotional insight that MacDougall has refined over the past two decades as he performed everywhere from punk squats to headlining mainstages at Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza. The constant is the honesty and vulnerability in both MacDougall’s DIY ethics and approach to music, facts that are laid bare on every note of Wild Eyes. To bring Wild Eyes to life, Broken Gold enlisted acclaimed engineer Stuart Sikes (The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes) to track and mix the record, while the legendary Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) provided the mastering polish. Limited edition Wild Eyes vinyl preorders are available here. Read the full article

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Broken Gold Tap Power Pop Influence On New Single “Fault”

Broken Gold today share the glistening power pop ripper “Fault”. The track is the final single to be released in advance of the band’s second studio full-length Wild Eyes. On an album that is riven with reflection, “Fault” stands as a particularly striking testament to realization. From the opening salvo, “Feeling like the living dead, The dream had died inside my head” Broken Gold singer/guitarist Ian MacDougall navigates the equally cursed and blessed nature of being a touring musician. Years spent playing stages in places you’ve always dreamed of, all the while watching your home life disintegrate as relationships are strained and an exhausting never-ending search is undertaken for part time jobs to fill the downtime. It’s a topic close to the heart of seasoned road dog MacDougal, who’s served lengthy stints with Band Of Horses and a legion of punk and crust bands, as well as over 20 years as a founding member of beloved Texan punks Riverboat Gamblers. Notes MacDougal, “it’s sort of a cautionary tale in a way.  Be careful what you wish for. This one’s about crumbling under pressure, constantly feeling like you’re getting tested and that you’re always at odds with everything but at the heart of everything you have to admit that you yourself are a root of the problems you’re having.” “Fault” is taken from the upcoming Broken Gold album Wild Eyes, which is set for release on May 3rd via Austin hometown label Chicken Ranch Records. Read the full article

[newmusicweekly]

Broken Gold Tap Power Pop Influence On New Single "Fault"

Broken Gold today share the glistening power pop ripper “Fault”. The track is the final single to be released in advance of the band’s second studio full-length Wild Eyes.    On an album that is riven with reflection, “Fault” stands as a particularly striking testament to realization. From the opening salvo, “Feeling like the living dead, The dream had died inside my head” Broken Gold singer/guitarist Ian MacDougall navigates the equally cursed and blessed nature of being a touring musician. Years spent playing stages in places you’ve always dreamed of, all the while watching your home life disintegrate as relationships are strained and an exhausting never-ending search is undertaken for part time jobs to fill the downtime. It’s a topic close to the heart of seasoned road dog MacDougal, who’s served lengthy stints with Band Of Horses and a legion of punk and crust bands, as well as over 20 years as a founding member of beloved Texan punks Riverboat Gamblers.    Notes MacDougal, “it’s sort of a cautionary tale in a way.  Be careful what you wish for. This one’s about crumbling under pressure, constantly feeling like you’re getting tested and that you’re always at odds with everything but at the heart of everything you have to admit that you yourself are a root of the problems you’re having.”   “Fault” is taken from the upcoming Broken Gold album Wild Eyes, which is set for release on May 3rd via Austin hometown label Chicken Ranch Records. Read the full article

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Antonio Velardo shares: ‘Every Politician Has Got to Have Somebody That’s the Hit Man’ by Ian MacDougall

By Ian MacDougall A Republican state lawmaker devised a bribery scheme that ended in a trial and a death — and showed why corruption has become harder to prosecute. Published: January 25, 2024 at 05:01AM from NYT Magazine https://ift.tt/aMDNUyo via IFTTT

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Envying the achievements of others

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The Norwegian town where anyone might be a spy

via 1843 Magazine For residents of Kirkenes, on the border of Norway and Russia, espionage is an everyday fact of life   Aug 29th 2023       By Ian MacDougall Frode Berg was a border inspector on the brink of retirement when, in 2014, he was first recruited by the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS). Berg was based in Kirkenes, a town of 3,500 nestled amid the pine forests and rocky…

[walkingphotos]

Today's Walking Photos: Arrrrgh...today I got my pupils dilated for an eye exam, and after a first go-round the doc decided to turbo-boost the proceedings and put in those extra-strength dilation drops on top of the initial dose. Sure hope he saw everything he needed to, because the result was that I was like a freegin’ vampire the rest of the day, shrinking away from the faintest light sources and hiding in the shadows whenever I could. Suffice it to say I was in no condition (yes I’m being hyperdramatic) to go out in the sun and walk today.

So what is all this then? Well, it seemed like a good day for a Scotland throwback. See, it turns out that one of many lodging options in the pleasant northern town of Inverness is a place called the MacDougall Clansman Hotel. When I was planning our trip, my eyes alit on this hotel and I believe I said aloud (to an empty room), “Well, clearly we’ll have to stay there!” But alas, I checked their website and was crushed to find that they were booked up on the dates we were visiting. It was so important to me that I actually picked up the phone and called the place, just on the off chance that there’d been a cancellation or something and maybe the website wasn’t up to date. I was lucky enough to get the proprietor of the hotel on the phone, a gentleman named Ian MacDougall – like my son! Ian was incredibly pleasant and he made a very thorough effort to see if there was any way he could fit us in, but it just wasn’t to be. Still, our conversation was so pleasant that I told him we’d be sure to pay him a visit while we were in Inverness. So one morning we walked to a shamefully tasty pancake restaurant for breakfast, and then headed a couple blocks further to the MacDougall Clansman Hotel. Notes on the photos:

Here’s the entrance, and as you can see – NO VACANCIES. But as you can also see, my lovely wife and son were with me! 

Ian the proprietor showed us around a bit, and I took quite a shine to the breakfast room. No Cheerios dispenser or drippy waffle machine here! Nope, you’ve got tea, oatcakes and a grand bowl of marmalade! (Other lovely jams available to the rear, and of course I’m just fixated on oatcakes and marmalade but a full cooked Scottish breakfast is included with your stay.)

On prominent display in the breakfast room is this framed print of Dougall, barefoot founder of the Clan MacDougall. The same print hangs in my living room! Coincidence? I think not! Dougall’s father was the great warrior Somerled, who is thought to have driven the Vikings from the Scottish isles and was ultimately dubbed King Of The Isles.

The MacDougall crest, rendered in splendid embroidery and bearing the clan motto Buaidh No Bas – conquer or die.

A pair of Ian MacDougalls! The son isn’t normally an eager photographic subject, but he really enjoyed this visit and was happy to pose with his namesake. Doesn’t left-side Ian just look the part of the kind-faced innkeeper you’d want to have greeting you after a long day seeing the sights of Inverness? His dad started the place in 1959.

When we go back to Scotland, if Inverness is on our itinerary, I’m going to plan much further in advance and secure a room at the MacDougall Clansman Hotel. That way my man Ian can be prepared and stock up on the marmalade.

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The Empire Strikes Back

by Ian MacDougall

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How McKinsey Helped the Trump Administration Carry Out Its Immigration Policies Newly uncovered documents show the consulting giant helped ICE find “detention savings opportunities” — including measures the agency’s staff sometimes viewed as too harsh on immigrants.. via NYT U.S.

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McKinsey waxes fat off coronavirus failures

Consulting giant McKinsey may have gotten a lot of bad PR over the past year - from its collaboration with the murderous Saudi regime to its work to expand Riker's Island to its critical role in ICE gulags - but it's fitting in GREAT in the Trump covid response. All told, McKinsey's made $100m for its role in the blundering, chundering comedy-of-errors that is the Trump admin's coronavirus response, much of it in no-bid contracts awarded by former McKinsey employees who landed senior roles in the Trump admin. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-mckinsey-is-making-100-million-and-counting-advising-on-the-governments-bumbling-coronavirus-response#978855 That total is still climbing, too. Ian MacDougall's Propublica investigation into McKinsey's coronavirus engagements finds their tentacles sunk into the VA, the Defense Health Agency, the USAF, the Cuomo regime, and the state governments of CA, IL, MA, NK, TN and VA. McKinsey's also raking it in from cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans and St Louis. Where these contracts are for important work, McKinsey routinely fails to deliver. Much of the work McKinsey won for itself is largely cosmetic, though. In both cases, they bill top dollar (naturally). It's a lucky break for the company, which has been hamstrung by its own failures - for example, its bankruptcy division can't win much work after a series of conflict of interest scandals. It's also been targeted by the General Services Agency for years of brutal price-gouging, and the company was caught using its influence to sideline the GSA investigators in a bid to prevent bad news about its corrupt practices from coming to light. This cost the company much of its pre-coronavirus public sector work, making the new round of fat contracts a godsend. And much of that work was steered McKinsey's way by former McKinsey staffers - or current staffers who have been contracted to oversee government contracts. MacDougall tracks the many ways that McKinsey underperformed in these contracts, at the expense of American lives and safety. He also tracks the company's 70-year campaign to replace government functions with private contractors, an ideology it spread around the world. "Over decades, McKinsey’s approach became self-reinforcing. As administrations chipped away at the civil service politicians who advocate small government got the dysfunctional bureaucracy they had complained about all along, which helped them justify dismantling it further." One of McKinsey's most lucrative lines of work is selling "data it obtains from one government project to other agencies," becoming the clearinghouse - and rentier - of public data, generated at public expense, for use by public agencies. Those data repositories were cited as the reason that McKinsey needed to be hired to run so much of the government coronavirus response. The company cites the "pro bono" work its employees have done during the crisis, but the government officials whom this work was supposed to benefit say that it was useless - prettying up spreadsheets and making slide decks. McKinsey's own description of what it can offer to government clients is a meaningless word-salad of consulting jargon: "analysis, best practices, perspectives, decision support." Seriously GPT-3 would produce more convincing pitches. As Miami-Dade deputy mayor Jennifer Moon dryly observed after getting one of these McKinsey pitches: "Apparently, it takes 5 people with staff support to do what I’ve been doing myself." The bill for those people? $142k/week. Normally, McKinsey swears its clients to secrecy about their contracting with the firm and refuses to disclose its client list, but during the pandemic, McKinsey changed its terms to let it cite its clients to drum up new work - while still gagging those clients. This one-sided confidentiality lets the company boast of its work in places like Miami-Dade, while gagging the officials who found the work substandard and actively harmful, at a cost of more than $500k.

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She’s Out of My League (2010)

Comedy, Romance

An airport security guard gets involved with a girl who’s very obviously of a higher caliber than himself, and schemes to make the relationship last as his friends and family watch along in disbelief. Kirk (Baruchel) was languishing in a dead-end job as an airport security agent when he somehow managed to earn the affections of the successful and drop-dead gorgeous Molly (Eve).

Even Kirk isn’t exactly sure what Molly sees in him, though he’s willing to do whatever it takes to make the relationship work. With his friends, family, and ex-girlfriend all watching stunned from the sidelines, Kirk discovers that he’ll have to work overtime in order to convince Molly that he’s worth hanging on to.

Director: Jim Field Smith

Writers: Sean Anders, John Morris

Stars: Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve, T.J. Miller, Mike Vogel, Nate Torrence, Lindsay Sloane, Kyle Bornheimer

►Cast:

Jay Baruchel→KirkAlice Eve→MollyT.J. Miller→StainerMike Vogel→JackNate Torrence→DevonLindsay Sloane→MarnieKyle Bornheimer→DylanJessica St. Clair→DebbieKrysten Ritter→PattyDebra Jo Rupp→Mrs. KettnerAdam LeFevre→Mr. KettnerKim Shaw→KatieJasika Nicole→WendyGeoff Stults→CamHayes MacArthur→RonAndrew Daly→Mr. FullerSharon Maughan→Mrs. McCleishTrevor Eve→Mr. McCleishAdam Tomei→RandyRobin Shorr→Tina JordanPatrick Jordan→BowlerTom Stoviak→Museum DirectorRick Applegate→“Plane Doctor”Heather Leigh→Flight AttendantChuck Aber→PilotJason McCune→Restaurant PatronYan Xi→KarenEvan Alex Cole→Scotty Reese (as Alex Cole)Joe Eberle→Hockey BartenderPhil Spano→Hockey CoordinatorJeff Adams→Hockey PlayerMila Cermak→Hockey PlayerMike Gaffney→Hockey PlayerTodd Gally→Hockey PlayerJim Gricar→Hockey PlayerRob Hofmann→Hockey PlayerJason C. Lewis→Hockey Player (as Jason Lewis)Ed Nusser→Hockey PlayerJory Rand→Hockey PlayerTom Rieck→Hockey PlayerMatthew Richert→Hockey Player (as Matt Richert)Joe Sager→Hockey PlayerLucia M. Aguirre→Flight AttendantElyse Alberts→Airline PassengerTony Amen→Airport PassengerNicholas Balzer→Airline PilotJoiel Bauschatz→Airline Ticket Agent / PedestrianRobert R. Bell→Airshow PatronAaron Bernard→First Class PassengerMinda Briley→Airport PassengerDavid Collihan→Airline Co-pilotSidney Crosby→SelfShawn Dando→ExtraJack Davis→Airport PatronRenee Downing→Birthday Party GuestMandy Ekman→StewardessJonathan Eldell→TravelerJackie Evancho→ExtraLamar Darnell Fields→Airport TravelerJim Fitzgerald→Pilot / Airline PassengerVal Gasior→Flight AttendantJosiah Hoffman→Pilot SmithKevin M. Jacobs→Market Square PatronCrystalann Jones→Bar PatronJeffrey Jones→Airport AdmirerWilliam Kania→Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey FanJon Knapp→Ex BoyfriendMichael Kolence→Party GuestJim Kuhn→Airline PassengerAlexis Kupka→SelfEric Leach→ExtraAlan Lee→TSA ArtStephanie Macdougall→Airport PassengerLorelei Mahoney→PassengerLaurie Mann→Hockey Crowd ExtraBuster Maxxwell→Flower sellerSean P. McCarthy→Airport TravelerLeslie McGuier→Airline ExtraTiffany Sander McKenzie→Airline PassengerChristopher Mele→Airport patronIan Michael→Restaurant GoerJeremy Moon→Airshow WorkerSusan Moran→Airline PassengerChristopher Nardizzi→Hockey FanPhil Nardozzi→Airline PassengerJillian O’Neil→Woman with SweaterDawn Renee→Flight AttendantPaul J. Rosenburg→BowlerDavid Santiago→Club PatronGaynelle W. Sloman→Party Guest / Driver on BridgeRay Sobieralski→PilotBrian E. Stead→WaiterRobert Stull→First Class PassengerJillian Vitko→Party GuestBlase Ward→Airport PatronJames Werley→Airport Person

Sources: imdb

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