Tag Archives: Judah and the Lion
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REVIEW: Needtobreathe and Judah & the Lion freewheel at the Paramount
Needtobreathe performs at Paramount Theatre in Oakland, Calif. on May 8, 2024. Sean Liming/STAFF. OAKLAND — Bear Rinehart didn’t have to bring it up at all, but the frontman and guitarist of South Carolina rock band Needtobreathe clearly had to get the venue switch for his band’s Wednesday concert…
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INTERVIEW: Judah & the Lion process pandemic with ‘Help Me To Feel Again’
Judah & The Lion performs at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on Aug. 16, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Little by little, the personal and professional life of Judah & the Lion frontman Judah Akers is returning to a sense of normalcy. “I did a workout for the first time…
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REVIEW: Sports Night in Oakland with Judah & the Lion
Judah & the Lion perform at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 19, 2019. Photos: Karen Goldman. OAKLAND — If tender bangers were a genre, Judah & the Lion would have that market cornered. Touring the band’s new album, Pep Talks, the Nashville trio known for blending Americana,…
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INTERVIEW: Flora Cash finds deeper calling in ‘somebody else’
Flora Cash photographed at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2019. Photos: Norm deVeyra. NAPA — Cole Randall and Shpresa Lleshaj, the married couple who perform as Flora Cash, didn’t realize that “You’re Somebody Else” would go on hold meaning for so many groups…
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Outside Lands: Paul Simon, Kacey Musgraves, Kygo and 9 others we loved on Sunday
Paul Simon performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 11, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey and Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — The third and final day of Outside Lands 2019 featured music legends Paul Simon and Mavis Staples in addition to…
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INTERVIEW: Judah & the Lion circle the wagons and hit the road with weighty songs
Judah & the Lion. Courtesy photo. While Nashville rock band Judah & the Lion was experiencing its breakthrough success with 2017 album Folk Hop N’ Roll, frontman Judah Akers’ family was breaking apart at the seams. Until then, he had been able to keep a festering plague private from his…
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PLAYLIST: Roman Gokhman’s year in interviews
Phoenix photographed at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on June 10, 2017. Photo: Alessio Neri RIFF doubled in readership in 2017, and as editor-in-chief, so did my workload. As one of five people running our humble little publication on a day-to-day basis, while planning as far out as…
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Roman Gokhman’s favorite concerts of 2017: Introduction
Photo: Jay Demetillo Welcome, once again, to my annual countdown of my most entertaining music experiences of the year. I attended 54 concerts this year, up from 51 last year and 41 the year before. In compiling this list, I’m not trying to scientifically list the best or most technically proficient…
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PHOTOS: Incubus, Jimmy Eat World, Judah and the Lion at Shoreline
Incubus performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on Aug. 16, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. MOUNTAIN VIEW — Incubus and Jimmy Eat World have teamed up for a short summer tour covering major cities in the U.S. Last night it was the only Bay Area’s date, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Incubus is touring…
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Interview: Judah & the Lion not taking anything back
Photos: Alessio Neri NAPA — Nashville’s Judah and the Lion wasn’t the first band to blend other influences with Americana and folk. Mumford and Sons have made their careers out of it; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and the Avett Brothers spawned dozens of copycats. Yet no band…
