7.25.2010 - Brandi Carlile @ The Kent Stage

The Brandi Carlile show in Kent was hands-down one of the best we've ever seen. The Kent Stage is an old converted movie theater - really a pretty small, intimate place for a seated show. This show had been sold out for a few weeks, and even a capacity crowd of 600 felt pretty minimal.

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7.24.2010 - Brandi Carlile and The Indianapolis Symphony @ Symphony on the Prairie

The Saturday night show for Brandi Carlile and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchaestra might have been one of our biggest highlights of the year. The first time Erica and I saw Brandi was when she played with the Louisville Orchaestra and it was simply amazing. And Saturday night, amidst the heat and threat of oncoming storms, Brandi did not disappoint us.

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7.23.2010 - Jack Johnson @ Verizon Wireless

Friday night’s Jack Johnson show was our 3rd in a series of Verizon Wireless Amphitheater shows. It was another hot evening where you felt that no matter where you stood or sat or breathed, you were sticking to something.

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7.22.2010 - Chicago and The Doobie Brothers @ Verizon Wireless

Before this show, I honestly couldn't have named a single song by The Doobie Brothers. As they kicked off the show, I heard a few familiar ones, like "Black Water". They got the crowd into their music, and there was a large contingent of 40-something men rocking out to them, giant cans of beer raised up over theirs heads in full worship mode.

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7.20.2010 - Lilith Fair @ Verizon Wireless

Lilith Fair was a late addition to the Indy Live Music concert schedule. The deciding factor was the offer of free lawn tickets from the Hamilton Town Center Verizon Wireless store in exchange for an old cell phone for their HopeLine project, which provides the phones to victims of domestic violence. It's a worthy cause, and it is hard to pass up free tickets!

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7.17.10 - Civil Twilight and The Paper Tongues @ Radio Radio

Saturday night's show at Radio Radio with Civil Twilight and the Paper Tongues was a high energy show filled with new music for us and a crowd that was excited to see a show from a couple of newer acts.

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7.14.2010 - Greg Laswell, Cary Brothers, Harper Blynn, Isaac Russel @ Radio Radio

The crowd at Radio Radio for Greg Laswell's show was definitely a younger one. Most people there were probably familiar with Laswell's song "Take Everything" from his newest album "Take a Bow" on 92.3 WTTS in Indy. That was as familiar as we were with his music when we walked in on Wednesday night, and we hadn't heard anything about the other artists. The crowd wasn't huge by any means, but there was a fairly good turnout for the show.

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7.7.2010 - Santana and Steve Winwood @ Verizon Wireless

Santana and his huge band then took the stage. There were two lead singers, bongos, drums, keyboard, guitar, etc. Carlos Santana plays a mean guitar, but that's not news to anyone I'm sure. He played some of his big hits, like "Maria, Maria", "Smooth", and a cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love". We were kinda prepared to be blown away by Santana, but ended up feeling that it was a good show, just not fantastic. Most of the songs were drug out for a lot longer than necessary for some reason.


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6.15.2010 - Ingrid Michaelson @ The Vogue

We were pretty excited about getting to see Ingrid at the Vogue as our first show back from Bonnaroo. It was because of Bonnaroo that we were convinced to see the show in the first place...we were captivated by how funny and personable she was onstage.

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