Awesome Color Concert History

"Is it possible to smash a guitar un-self-consciously? It certainly seemed that way at Cake Shop earlier this month, when Awesome Color left a roomful of in-the-know types gleefully dumbstruck. (Oakley Hall was headlining-- that alone means several quality musicians were present.) Singer Derek Stanton's seemingly unpremeditated ax-whacking lacked any sense of violence or menace(which is fine). It was simply the final blow in a stream of gestures that translate across rock & roll forms; any punk...

Date Concert Venue Location
Jun 08, 2008
Awesome Color / Evangelicals Whelans Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
May 29, 2008 –
May 31, 2008
Primavera Sound Festival 2008
MGMT / Bon Iver / Portishead / Vampire Weekend / Cat Power / Animal Collective / Caribou / Explosions in the Sky / De La Soul / Deerhunter / Public Enemy / Rufus Wainwright / Kavinsky / Dinosaur Jr. / Devo / Dirty Projectors / Simian Mobile Disco / The Cribs / Apparat / Okkervil River / Clipse / The Go! Team / Atlas Sound / fanfarlo / HEALTH / British Sea Power / The Notwist / No Age / Why? / Bill Callahan / Man Man / Nick Lowe / Tindersticks / Menomena / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / El Guincho / The Swell Season / A Place To Bury Strangers / The Sonics / Voxtrot / Sebadoh / My Brightest Diamond / Holy Fuck / Fuck Buttons / Bob Mould / Midnight Juggernauts / Boris / Mount Eerie / The Felice Brothers / The Clientele / Bishop Allen / 808 state / Les Savy Fav / Ellen Allien / Russian Red / Shellac / Autolux / Dr. Octagon / Mission of Burma / The Rumble Strips / Buffalo Tom / Lightspeed Champion / Para One / Holly Golightly / OM / Port O'Brien / The Mary Onettes / The Lions / Surkin / Pissed Jeans / The Wave Pictures / Times New Viking / Throbbing Gristle / Tiefschwarz / Alan Braxe / Digital Mystikz / Young Marble Giants / Manel / Robert Hood / Scout Niblett / Six Organs of Admittance / Polvo / Kelley Stoltz / Edan / Model 500 / DJ Assault / DJ Funk / DM Stith / Messer Chups / Kinski / Enon / Malente / Matt Elliott / Prinzhorn Dance School / Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs / Shipping News / White Williams / David Thomas Broughton / Eric's Trip / The Devastations / Manos de Topo / Supermayer / Silver Jews / Thomas Brinkmann / Tachenko / Andy Votel / The Right Ons / Träd, Gräs och Stenar / Mi And L'au / MV & EE / Voice of the Seven Woods / Awesome Color / Extraperlo / SJ Esau / The Strange Death of Liberal England / la estrella de david / Tarantula / Graham / Madee / Bob Mould Band / Unchained / Guillamino / Apparat Band / Mary Weiss / Torpedo / It's Not Not / Scarlet's Well / Kool Keith & Kutmasta Kurt / fasenuova / El Hijo / Clint / El Chico Con La Espina En El Costado / The Marzipan Man / Vortice / DJ Supermarkt / Moho / Mv & Ee With the Golden Road / Morente And Lagartija Nick / Les Aus / Dj Shir Khan / Le Petit Ramon / Gentle Music Men / Subterranean Kids / april fool's day / Grande-Marlaska / Darren Hayman & Jack Hayter / Le pianc / The Missing Leech / Juan B / Abrevadero / Bélmez / La Orquesta Del Caballo Ganador / DjCoCo / Ary Weiss of the Shangri-las / Edan & MC Dagha / Tarntula / DJ De Mierda / Twin Kranes / Bèstia Ferida Show all bands
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Parc del Fòrum Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Show Duplicate for May 29, 2008
May 24, 2008
Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color
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Palác Akropolis Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
May 18, 2008
Black Mountain / Phosphorescent / Awesome Color Scala London, England, United Kingdom
May 15, 2008
Fuck Buttons / I Love Sarah / Awesome Color ABClub, Ancienne Belgique Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Mar 08, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and ...
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color / Pretenders Show all bands
City National Grove of Anaheim Anaheim, California, United States
Feb 28, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and ...
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color Show all bands
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House of Blues Houston Houston, Texas, United States
Feb 25, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and ...
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color / Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Show all bands
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Belly Up Aspen Aspen, Colorado, United States
Feb 24, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Katt Williams / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson ...
Iggy & the Stooges / Katt Williams / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color Show all bands
Paramount Theatre Denver, Colorado, United States
Feb 14, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Despised Icon / Misery Index / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / ...
Iggy & the Stooges / Despised Icon / Misery Index / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color / Beneath The Massacre / Man Must Die / Maroon / Bring Me The Horizon / Blessed By A Broken Heart Show all bands
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Markthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Feb 06, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Despised Icon / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson ...
Iggy & the Stooges / Despised Icon / Avengers / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color / Misery Index / Beneath The Massacre / Man Must Die / Maroon / Bring Me The Horizon / Blessed By A Broken Heart Show all bands
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Les 4 Ecluses Dunkirk, France
Jan 29, 2008
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / ani difranco / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson /...
Iggy & the Stooges / Avengers / ani difranco / Ellen Allien / The Apples In Stereo / Drive-By Truckers / Chan Marshall / 16volt / David Vandervelde / David Dondero / The Six Parts Seven / The Grates / The Brunettes / Chris Thile / Calvin Johnson / Curumin / Architects / Antibalas / Ferraby Lionheart / The Cave Singers / Awesome Color Show all bands
The Palace Theatre Albany Albany, New York, United States
Dec 14, 2007
Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color / Hate Fuck Trio
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Ogden Theatre Denver, Colorado, United States
Dec 13, 2007
Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color / Sea Wolf
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Voodoo Lounge, Harrah's Casino North Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Dec 12, 2007
Dinosaur Jr. / Coyote Bones / Awesome Color
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Slowdown Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Dec 09, 2007
Sea Wolf / Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Dec 07, 2007
Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color / Grand Champeen Emo's Austin Austin, Texas, United States
Nov 29, 2007
Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color
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The Valarium Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Nov 27, 2007
Dinosaur Jr. / Dead Confederate / Awesome Color Black Cat Washington, D.C., United States
Nov 18, 2007
Sea Wolf / Awesome Color Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, California, United States

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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  Embedded by Blaire Lund


Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  Embedded by Blaire Lund


Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  Embedded by Blaire Lund


Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
  Embedded by Blaire Lund

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Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color on Apr 1, 2009 [602-small]

Dinosaur Jr. / Awesome Color
Apr 1, 2009
 Milford, Connecticut, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [380-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [381-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [382-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [383-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [384-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [385-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sonic Youth / Awesome Color on Jul 21, 2009 [387-small]

Sonic Youth / Awesome Color
Jul 21, 2009
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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