Archive: 2024

New Year’s hangover got you down? Well, if that happens to be the case, we regret to inform you that this peculiar performance by Nina Hagen from 1979 probably won’t help on that front. Haven said that it’s still a pretty captivating operatically gothy performance, to say the least…not to mention distinctly animated, bizarre, and […]

After starting their year-end run in New Haven on the 28th, Gov’t Mule returned to the Beacon Theatre on December 30th. They hadn’t played at the venue in a year, and NYC fans were psyched to have them back. Unlike previous stands, however, the upper balcony was unsold. It would be a shame if younger […]

For jam band fans, the days leading to New Year’s Eve and the night itself may be the holiest of holidays. This is when the bands they love lay down roots in a chosen town and play multi-night runs of shows that are often filled with surprises. This might mean guests, stunts, costume parties, or […]

Let’s face it: New Year’s Eve can be kind of a shitshow, especially when you’re young. But you know what? It’s hard to argue those aren’t the most fun or memorable ones (provided you actually can remember them). Indeed, chances are many of us have had our fair share of shit-tastic NYEs that we nonetheless […]

Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons are escorting 2024 out the door with a run of five shows in downtown Portland, Oregon. The band played two nights at the Star Theater before moving to the Jack London Revue for the following two nights. For New Year’s Eve, the Jackmormons will return to the Star Theater with […]

With New Year’s Eve (otherwise known as “Amateur Night”) right around the corner, for our final Manic Monday of 2024, we’re throwing it back to this killer NYE performance by Alice In Chains on MTV from 1992. This video not only captures the band in top form, with rad renditions of “Would?”, “Angry Chair”, and […]

Worldtown Soundsystem has perfected the art of synthesizing global music with EDM and shining the result through the singular lens of Philly soul and hip-hop; and the result is something awesomely unique and uniquely Philly. While the project has served as a platform for each member of the group to spread their individual sets of […]

Arguably the instrumental bridge to rock and roll music, the primal, repetitive urgency of what’s known as ‘the Bo Diddley beat’ is the blues condensed to its rhythmic essence. That may or may not be why Buddy Holly used the pattern as the basis for composing his “Not Fade Away,” but that hardly matters considering […]