The Low Anthem and Punch Brothers recently performed at the legendary Newport Folk Festival; both bands' sets were streamed live in full on NPR.org. The Low Anthem's home state performance garnered great reviews, including one from the Boston Globe, which wrote that a "fiery spirit imbued the Low Anthem’s set earlier on the same stage, with the Providence band once again proving its quick ascent was warranted."

The Low Anthem's full set at Newport can be streamed at npr.org.

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In their review of the festival, American Songwriter magazine called Punch Brothers' set "a deft fusion of old and new," and described how "the gobble of the banjo with the harpy strike of Chris Thile’s mandolin accelerated to a dizzying pace by the set’s end." Writer Brett Warnke praised the band's cover of Radiohead's "Kid A,", noting that the "tune was held together by a deep bass and sporadic strings which slowly and strangely unraveled into an old school bluegrass song about booze and love loss."

The Punch Brothers set is also streaming in full at npr.org.