Live Music Q2 2015

St. Vincent at Coachella 2015

It was a very busy musical quarter -- 18 shows in 13 weeks (counting each day of Coachella as one). That puts me at 25 total for the year, which is just one away from my annual target of 26. Needless to say, I will make that target this year. The most memorable highlights were St. Vincent at Coachella, Sufjan Stevens, and Puddles Pity Party.

• Max Raabe & Palast Orchester
• Kaki King
• Coachella Day One (AC/DC, Interpol, Steely Dan, The War on Drugs, Nero, Sylvan Esso, Kimbra, Action Bronson, Ab-Soul, Cloud Nothings, Allah-Las)
• Coachella Day Two (Swans, Jack White, Ratatat, Tycho, Run the Jewels, DJ Harvey, Chet Faker, Toro y Moi, Perfume Genius, Royal Blood, Parquet Courts, Lights)
• Coachella Day Three (Drake, Gesaffelstein, Florence and the Machine, St. Vincent, Brand New, Jason Bentley, Marina and the Diamonds, Built to Spill, Sturgill Simpson, Mac Demarco, M0, Angel Olsen) 
• Father John Misty 
• SF Symphony (Gardiner & English Baroque Soloists perform Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo)
• The Decemberists
• Four Tet
• SF Symphony (MTT conducts Mahler & Bernstein)
• Laurie Anderson
• Spoon
• SF Symphony (Dutoit conducts Pictures at Exhibition)
• The Mountain Goats 
• Puddles Pity Party
• Sufjan Stevens 
• SF Symphony (MTT conducts semi-staged Missa Solemnis) 
• Anais Mitchell (performing Hadestown

Puddles Pity Party at Great American Music Hall