Akron/Family live in concert.
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Akron Family

43
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

69
%
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43
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LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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Critic Consensus

Based on 43 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Akron Family is rated as a neither good nor bad live performer, with mediocre shows overall.

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Latest release

Live At Bush Hall On 2011-05-30 (March 6, 2021)

artist info

GENRE
experimental
ORIGIN
BIO
Akron/Family was an American folk-influenced experimental rock band that formed in 2002 in New York that is currently on hiatus.
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CRITIC concert REVIEWS

NOW Magazine (Canada)

July 27, 2013
60
%
Trio went heavy and hippie in a Hillside preview.

Bearded Magazine (UK)

July 24, 2013
%
Akron/Family S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, the band’s fifth album, had been released that week.

State of Mind Magazine (USA)

July 3, 2013
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It was cold, rainy, and a Wednesday when I strolled into my favorite small venue in Portland and I was expecting a sparsely filled room.

Showbams (USA)

May 31, 2013
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The three piece act, featuring longtime Avi side-gal Sheridan Riley on drums, curated a set heavy on new songs for a moderately filled room.

Exclaim (Canada)

April 21, 2013
60
%
What initially looked like four random espresso aficionados knobbing on their instruments became increasingly engaging when drummer Moshe Rozenberg stepped behind the kit.

The Know (Denver Post) (USA)

April 11, 2013
%
With personnel changes over the past few years, Akron/Family‘s sound has evolved from a sort of modernized freak folk into a solid post-rock bulldozer.

The Santa Barbara Independent (USA)

January 30, 2013
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Over the span of the its 10-year history, the band has melded folk and rock and free jazz and metal into one dizzyingly splendid package — and made it listenable, to boot.

Past critic reviews published in

The Village Voice (USA), College Media Journal (USA), Undertoner (Denmark), Faster Louder (Australia), The 405 (UK) and more

IMAGE CREDIT

Roger Zender [CC BY-2.0] via Wikimedia Commons