Concert reviews per year
2009
2009: 378 concert reviews and 5,944 photos from 126 writers and photographers, at 122 venues and festival stages in 27 cities.
Month by month
Festivals made the peaks: SXSW in March and MusicFest NW in September.
- 20Jan
- 28Feb
- 111MarSXSW
- 19Apr
- 13May
- 30Jun
- 26Jul
- 15Aug
- 38SepMusicFest NW
- 34Oct
- 31Nov
- 13Dec
The 2009 lineup
The bands melophobe reviewed most that year, billed by how often.
Six times
Five times
Four times
Three times each
Longwave + Passion Pit + The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + Horse Feathers + Beach House + Blind Pilot + Metric + Deelay Ceelay
Busiest rooms
Festivals
- SXSW81
- MusicFest NW12
- Bonnaroo7
- Bumbershoot4
- Pickathon3
- Festival 83
Where the reviews came from
- Portland 99
- Austin 87
- Boston 68
- Seattle 66
- Philadelphia 21
- Elsewhere 37
Grouped by the old site’s city sections: Cambridge counts as Boston, the Gorge as Seattle.
Notable nights
- Busiest day
- March 18: 29 reviews, all from SXSW
- First show of the year
- Head Automatica, Great Scott, Allston, January 10
- Last show of the year
- The Guantanamo School of Medicine, Neumos, Seattle, December 29
Fifty-word verdicts
171 albums judged in fifty words.
The crew
126 people wrote or shot for melophobe in 2009. Nicole Kristek alone photographed 45 shows and reviewed 26.
Most shows photographed
- Nicole Kristek 45
- Joshua Bean 43
- Ari Sommer 27
- James Mundy 16
- Angel Priest 15
Most shows reviewed
Also in 2009
508 news posts, 239 recommended shows, 135 video picks, 19 articles and interviews and 816 songs shared alongside the reviews.