Animal Collective returned to Virginia, this time to the more intimate Jefferson Theatre, and the energy of one of my most beloved bands seemed limitless before the night ended. When opening act Circuit Des Yeux started her set, the theatre was only about halfway...
A Gogol Bordello show is an all-consuming force. The air is charged; a nearly violent happiness (ala Bjork) travels out from the stage and infects the crowd. It is as joyous and wild as a megachurch taken over by a gang of tongue-and-cheek pirates, and this past...