Article and Photos by: Nick Durcholz Franklin, Tenn. – From a patron’s perspective, the chicken and waffles of a gleeful music festival experience are the seemingly flagrant flavors of compromise and perseverance. To keep these two ideals from completely spoiling amid a major hurricane that had near inexhaustible energy in the form
Author: Nick Durcholz
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Loserville 2024 // Live @ Ruoff Music Center // 7.22.24
WonderRoad Festival // 6.17-18.23 // Garfield Park
Article and Photos by: Nick Durcholz Indianapolis, Ind. – Superstition bursts into the mind of the most fervent skeptic when a festival experience goes particularly sour - or in the case of this festival - sweet. Merely a bumbling two years old, WonderRoad was/is perhaps the most streamlined, crisp music festival experience
The Black Keys & Band of Horses // Ruoff Music Center // 7.16.22
Article and Photos by: Nick Durcholz Noblesville, IN -- Languid riffs mingled with sweet, chortled longing floating the Whip-Poor-Wills and nighthawks on the milky air on a close Hoosier night in July. It was a layered but lackadaisical potion for sure, like being cycled in and out of a time warp. One
Ben Folds & Violent Femmes // Live @ the Lawn at White River State Park // 8.10.19
Article and Photos by: Nick Durcholz Indianapolis, Ind. – Under a cotton candy sky on an idyllic summer night along the canal three very types of music spanning generations came together and made one very large extended family. All the classic ingredients to any casual summer gathering were present here. This
Bishop Briggs // Live @ The Mercury Ballroom // 6.14.19
Article and Photos: Nick Durcholz Louisville, KY – There are few new artists in the glaring limelight who have fallen upon my ears with more gravity than Bishop Briggs. Live? She is an emotional panorama made from her experiences crafted chaotically as both cutting and gentle brushstrokes. The moment I heard the
Tool // Live @ KFC Yum! Center // 5.8.2019
Article and Photos by: Nick Durcholz Louisville, KY – A plethora of sound seething, saturating, corroding the thin alloy of reality surrounding the cortex until time and space drip down in rivulets to a pool of plausibility. Nope, just Tool bringing an entire arena to aural climax. From Opiate to 10,000 Days
The Native Howl with Brother Man // Live @ The End // 2.2.19
Article and Photos by: Nick Durcholz Nashville, TN – Peel away the neo-bougie brine of the Ellison Square area and you’ll find a place where raw, non-homogenized tunes still buzz true from the questionable doors. This place is called The End, fitting in these tumultuous times, and it is the Music City
Modest Mouse // Live @ IU Auditorium / 10.19.18
Article and photos by: Nick Durcholz BLOOMINGTON, IN – The haughty hoot and hack of every crimson and navy bedazzled clown around B-town for the gluttonous gridiron match was a demure dote in comparison to the passion and peculiar panache of Modest Mouse. One thing was certain when Mr. Brock and the band
