Diamond Rings

FUN FUN FUN FEST

• FFFF Sunday Live Reviews

  Auditorium Shores, November 4, 2012

• Pallbearer

  BY ADAM SCHRAGIN

• Cult of Youth

  BY GREG BEETS

• Baauer

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• A Place To Bury Strangers

  BY MARC SAVLOV

• Giant Giant Sand

  BY ADAM SCHRAGIN

• Japandroids

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• Deerhoof

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Titus Andronicus

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• De La Soul

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Fucked Up

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Turbonegro

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• FFFF Saturday Live Reviews

  Auditorium Shores, November 3, 2012

• The Golden Boys

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Saul Williams, Wyatt Cenac, David Cross

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

• Kreayshawn

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• OFF!

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Real Estate

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• Danny Brown

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Wavves

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• Public Image Ltd.

  BY GREG BEETS

• A$AP Rocky

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Refused

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• FFFF Friday Live Reviews

• Dum Dum Girls

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• Napalm Death

  BY ADAM SCHRAGIN

• Bob Mould

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• Hannibal Buress

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

• Astronautalis

  BY MARC SAVLOV

• Converge

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Superchunk

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Against Me!

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Santigold

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• X

  BY GREG BEETS

• Bun B

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Run-DMC

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• This Is PiL

  Sex Pistol and PiL frontman John Lydon, by God.

  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview

  Saving the best for last

• Twin Sister

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• X

  BY JIM CALIGIURI

• Superchunk

  BY GREG BEETS

• Sharon Van Etten

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Rakim

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Nomeansno

  BY GREG BEETS

• Explosions in the Sky

  BY AUSTIN POWELL

• Beatbox

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Headbanging & Horns: The Black Stage

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• Austin in the House

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Comedy: The Yellow Stage

  BY ADAM SCHRAGIN

• Black Stage Punks

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Electrified: The Blue Stage

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Friday Reviews

• Santigold

  BY THOMAS FAWCETT

• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Bob Mould

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Torche

  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

• Dum Dum Girls

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• Burning Love

  BY GREG BEETS

• Minus the Bear

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• Municipal Waste

  BY GREG BEETS

• Diamond Rings

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Cursive

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Saturday Reviews

• Paul Banks

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• OFF!

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Kreayshawn

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Daughn Gibson

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Diamond Rugs

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• The Head and the Heart

  BY ABBY JOHNSTON

• Why?

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• The Helio Sequence

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Fun Fun Fun Fest Sunday Reviews

• Titus Andronicus

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Japandroids

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Giant Giant Sand

  BY MICHAEL TOLAND

• Cult of Youth

  BY GREG BEETS

• Pallbearer

  BY LUKE WINKIE

• Black Moth Super Rainbow

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 Present: First Serve

  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

• Deerhoof

  BY KEVIN CURTIN

• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

  BY DOUG FREEMAN

• Nite Jewel

  BY ADAM SCHRAGIN

• Cheap Girls

  BY GREG BEETS

Diamond Rings

Great story: disheveled post-punker trades in his decrepit brown notes for rinky-dink Eighties hooks and a vast array of leopard-print tights. Two years on, Toronto's John O'Regan refreshes his Diamond Rings solo project with a sophomore dollop of glam-pop glitz. Free Dimensional is a dance craze on wax. O'Regan's been drawn further away from his guitar and closer to carbonated synths, so he's eager to tell everyone else they can't keep up. A peacock of a songwriter, his "I'm Just Me" splashes acid and sugar, while "Day & Night" shakes it out with an irresistible cliche: "One, two! Let me love you! Three, four! Love you more." It's both hip-hop fashionable and cheesy banal packed into one vibrant and romantic spree. (Fri., Blue stage, 3:20pm)