Cat Power, Rogue Wave, The Secret Machines & Grace Potter @ All Points West, Jersey City - pics

photos by Kyle Dean Reinford

Cat Power came after Rodrigo y Gabriela on the main stage Sunday. It was raining. I decided it was worth getting a little wet so I stood there getting wet (I didn’t bring an umbrella and I’m too cool to wear a poncho). Like they did at Lollapalooza, Chan Marshall and band blazed through an hour set that was a mix of the bluesier, big-band new stuff and the mellower old stuff that I like better. Better or not, her whole set was worth paying attention to and then it stopped raining (though it would start again later in the day). At that point I decided to make the best of the rest of Sunday. Also, I had never seen the new version of The Secret Machines. More pictures and recap below…

Cat Power…

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As previously mentioned, I saw Rogue Wave after Amadou y Mariam and they sounded great. Their very young crowd all got very excited when the song from the Zune commercial came on. It is a good song. Someone I was talking to said that one day Rogue Wave will write a hit pop song and they’ll be huge. Seems reasonable. Their All Points West performance definitely made me like them as a live band for the first time.

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After Cat Power came The Secret Machines on a smaller stage. It’s weird to say, but I think it’s been years since the last time I saw them. They have a different lineup now which was also kind of weird. I didn’t love it. I used to think they had a lot of Pink Floyd in them. Someone pointed out that they “sounded like Rush” at All Points West. I kind of agreed. You could say that The Secret Machines and Earl Greyhound combined were the classic rock segment of the festival.

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I’ve never seen or heard Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. That didn’t change at All Points West. Kyle had fun taking pictures of them though…

to be continued….