With little fanfare, we leave Germany for the Czech Republic. Driver D. is unenthusiastic. Born in the Ukraine, he says he prefers speaking Russian to speaking Czech. He is more excited about listening to Arcade Fire, again.
In Prague, we drive straight to the venue. The club is called 007. It is on a hill in [...]
It's been five years since the last record from Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina's low-key punk-folk duo The Evens, and they're back on Nov. 21 with a new 7-inch on Dischord. The A-side is called "Warble Factor" and the B-side is "Timothy Wright." (Could the latter be about the late gospel singer? Cool.) According to [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
We leave Bielefeld for Berlin and are immediately stranded in a two-hour traffic jam. Outside Berlin, we stop at a Burger King but, when we try to [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
Driver D. wakes me at 8:30 a.m. We push-start the van and drive two and a half hours toward the Czech border. In a gravel lot in [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
The van breaks down in Stuggart on the way to Wurzburg. (This is a bit like driving from Baltimore to Philadelphia and catching a flat in Newark, [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
Our adventures at Dachau and a huge traffic jam in Munich make us late for the show in Esslingen, a small suburb of Stuggart. The venue is [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
We drive north across the Alps, leaving Italy for Austria, then Germany. I pay about 15 euros in highway tolls, 8 euros for an Austrian highway sticker, [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
The Bologna show is canceled—or, more accurately, never booked—so we stay with my friend T. who lives in a farmhouse not far from Mirandola, a small town [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
We have a short drive from Massa to Florence, and stop in Pisa to see its famous leaning tower. People pretend to hold the tower up in [...]
For most of the month of October, Arts Desk contributor Justin Moyer and his band, D.C. modern rock quartet Edie Sedgwick, are touring Europe. Here is his latest dispatch.
The Rome show, which was to pay 500 euros, is canceled. Instead, for 200 euros, we play a show in Massa, Italy—a bit like playing Long Beach [...]
