...with a run to the festival? This afternoon, hundreds of race participants streamed down Flagler Boulevard and straight into the festival gates as part of the SunFest TGI5K. Not all of them were hardcore athletes—a posse of runners dressed as giant beer bottles stood at the...
New York’s Young Man Pit started the Thursday music lineup on the Bank of America stage. The very young Young Man Pit crowd. The Deep Dark Woods, an impressive Canadian, five-piece alternative folk band moved the crowd to dance. We loved lead singer and guitarist Ryan Boldt’s thick...
Anybody who caught the Deep Dark Woods' twang-tastic, Grateful Dead-inflected set yesterday afternoon (they played "Peggy O" beautifully) noticed this dude rocking in the grass. Tony Verrelli, 88 years old, launched into a shuffling little boogie during "The Place I Left Behind." Soon enough, a...
No performer at this year's SunFest is more accomplished than Herbie Hancock. He may not have sold more records than Snoop or played arenas as big as Creed, but as far as impact on the musical landscape, across a variety of genres—not to mention impact...
There was an unmistakable haze blanketing Flagler Drive's youthful crowd yesterday, but the most mellow concert-goers were surprisingly not vying for airspace by the main stage. Shielded from the sun's heat, the Canadian, five-piece alternative folk band The Deep Dark Woods provided a breath of fresh...
Snoop Dogg might have the best job in all of pop music. No one else flaunts as many hits or smokes stronger stuff while being surrounded by females and having thousands of people chant his name. The throng at the BofA Stage on Wednesday night was...
Apparently Girl Talk won't be the only act with an entourage on a SunFest stage this week. Yesterday Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, a nine-piece party from Brooklyn, performed for a beefy crowd as the sun began to dip below the skyline. Led by vocalist...
SunFest is off to a terrific start. Yesterday was a perfect taste of what the next four days have in store. First on deck was Mean Creek, the four-piece Boston band currently touring with the Counting Crows. Despite a tiny crowd, the band did their best...
Perhaps "reborn" isn't the right word, because they've been here all along. But last night Counting Crows seemed to step from 1994 directly into 2012. Their 80-minute set spanned the Berkeley band's entire 20-plus-year career, a career that exploded with the much-loved August and Everything After...
Mean Creek, the first band on the first day of SunFest, was appropriately enamored with their surroundings. Lead singer Chris Keene seemed stunned by the weather, the venue, the massive stage the Boston quartet filled with its anthemic, '90s-era alt-style rock. "This is a beautiful city!"...