FAVORITE SHOWS OF 2019

[Dr. Crane]

I saw 164 live acts this year and these ones were the best...

1. The Space Lady/Sun Ra Arkestra @ Columbia City Theater
2. Wand/Stereolab @ Showbox
3. Lightning Bolt @ Desert Daze
4. The Locust @ Desert Daze
5. Devo @ Desert Daze
6. Ween @ Desert Daze
7. Flaccid Mojo/Panda Bear @ Regency Ballroom
8. Animal Collective @ Desert Daze
9. Dogbreth @ Black Lodge
10. Justice Yeldham @ Lucky Liquor
11. Dirty Projectors/Deerhunter @ Showbox
12. The Rolling Stones @ the big stadium
13. Kamasi Washington/Herbie Hancock @ Marymoor
14. Oh Sees @ Neumos
15. Laura Stevenson @ Vera
16. Neil Young @ Keller
17. FKA twigs @ Moore
18. Low @ Neumos
19. Julia Holter @ Neumos
20. Blue Hawaii @ Timbre Room

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1. Stereolab @ Showbox
2. Oranssi Pazuzu @ Chop Suey
3. Dead to a Dying World @ Barboza (NWTF)
4. Emma Ruth Rundle @ Neumos
5. Seefeel @ Neumos
6. Aphex Twin @ Avant Gardner
7. Necking @ Victory
8. Machine Girl @ Lo-Fi
9. Thou, A. Lunn (Panopticon) @ Highline (NWTF)
10. Cruel Diagonals @ Timbre Room
11. Lingua Ignota @ Neumos
12. Deafheaven @ Showbox
13. Kedr Livanskiy @ Timbre Room
14. Camp Cope @ Crocodile
15. Blanck Mass @ Chop Suey
16. Pharmakon @ Kremwerk
17. Beach House @ The Moore (two times!)
18. Dawn Ray'd @ Barboza (NWTF)
19. Emily Reo/Charly Bliss @ Crocodile
20. Marissa Nadler @ The Sunset
21. Zen Mother @ Chop Suey
22. Soundmurderer @ Avant Gardner
23. Rebecca Black @ Crocodile
24. Japanese Breakfast @ Fort Worden (THING)
25. Zeal & Ardor @ Showbox

[Dr. Crane]

STEREOLAB

[littlefishtheory]

Didn't get to too many shows last year, the below were the highlights!

1. café tacvba (@ THING)
2. bon iver (@ The Gorge)
3. olafur arnalds (@ The Commodore)
4. aurora (@ The Commodore)
5. Hustle & Drone (@ The Liquor store)
6. on drugs (@ Mississippi studios)
7. MONO (@ Revolution Hall)
8. we were promised jetpacks (@doug Fir)
9. tycho (@ Arlene Schnitzer)
10. Typhoon (@ Mississippi studios)
11. great grandpa (@ Mississippi studios)
12. oso oso (@ Paris Theatre)
13. the national (@ Edgefield)
14. The Cinematic Orchestra (@ Wonder Ballroom)