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Warning: Violence, potential spoilers

Title: Your Story

Editor: Maguma (@magumausagi)

Song: Am I Wrong (cover)

Artist: Damien Escobar

Anime: Katanagatari

Category: Drama

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Damien Escobar _ Awaken

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Live Picks: 7/2

Jay Som

BY JORDAN MAINZER

For the first time this year, I didn’t get live picks up in time for last Saturday and Sunday, as I was busy floating in Wisconsin’s Sugar River with some friends and letting the sun pummel me. If anyone saw The Front Bottoms, Smoke DZA, Neil Young, Kacey Musgraves, Kevin Gordon, Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, John Moreland, Mind Over Mirrors, or Serpentwithfeet, let me know how they were! Moving on...

Snarky Puppy, Ravinia

Brooklyn-via-Denton, TX jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy plays Ravinia tonight, which is the type of direction you wish Ravinia would go more often. They’ve got the old school prestige, having won Grammy Awards for their last two records, Culcha Vulcha and the great Sylva, a collaboration with the Dutch Metropole Orchestra. But they also have contemporary touches, having collaborated (including one-off collaborations from their individual members) with R&B singers and hip hop artists like Lalah Hathaway, Erykah Badu, Kirk Franklin, Justin Timberlake, and Snoop Dogg.

Violinist Damien Escobar and British singer Jacob Collier open.

Paramore & Jay Som, Huntington Bank Pavilion

Two bands responsible for two of our favorite albums of last year play Huntington Bank Pavilion tonight. No, neither of them is Foster the People. One of them is the headliner--Paramore, whose After Laughter contributor Lauren Lederman described as “a poppier turn which complements the not-so-sunny lyrics.” Indeed, ever since their self-titled album was released in 2013, the band led by Hayley Williams has enjoyed a critical resurgence, their always sharp hooks and emotional honesty meeting a newfound willingness to explore genres beyond pop punk.

We’ve caught Jay Som twice: once before her breakout Everybody Works (an opening slot for Mitski and Japanese Breakfast) and once after. To call the album bedroom pop doesn’t do it justice, considering the extent to which the term has become more of an aesthetic descriptor than a revelation of process. But Melina Duterte wrote, played, and produced the entirety of the record--literally every instrument. “Singular vision” is more accurate.

Foster the People co-headline.

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Damien Escobar _ Forbidden Love

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