Because nobody asked for it, here are all the (bigger name) bands and musicians I have seen live…
…in the order in which I saw them:
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Death Cab for Cutie
My Brightest Diamond
The Decemberists
Sea Wolf
Nada Surf
The Flaming Lips (their New Year’s Eve bash in Oklahoma City!)
Radiohead
Brand New
Wilco
Fallout Boy (see two below)
Panic! At the Disco (see directly below)
Blink-182
Sufjan Stevens
Girl Talk/Cobra Starship (it was as bad as it sounds)
John Nolan
Murder by Death
Gaslight Anthem
Fruit Bats
Murder by Death (again, and so soon)
The Flaming Lips (again)
Joshua Bell
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Colt Ford (covered it for the paper)
Jukebox the Ghost
Damien Jurado
Tim Barry
Gaslight Anthem (again)
Upcoming:
Avett Brothers/John Mayer
Vampire Weekend
Still gotta see:
Fountains of Wayne
The Shins
Rogue Wave
Manchester Orchestra
Eels
Unbunny
Blind Pilot
Spoon
Ben Folds
Conor Oberst
She & Him
Dave Rawlings Machine
Mark Mulcahy
The Swell Season
The Weepies
Bruce Springsteen
Grant Lee
Jeff Mangum (almost went to a show he played a suprise set at, but ended up not going)
Kevin Devine (actually bought my ticket to see him, but got a headache and didn’t end up going)
Bob Dylan
The Kinks (I’m aware some of these are long shots)
Yusuf Islam
Neil Young