Posts by Nancy Lasher and Jordan Hamowy

The 7th annual Sea.Hear.Now (SHN) music festival in Asbury Park, NJ, was held on September 13th & 14th, and went off with hardly a hitch. It is a festival rooted in Asbury Park beach culture with a mix of local and big-name acts that center on rock music, but dip into punk, reggae, roots, electronica, […]

Sea Hear Now 2024 in Asbury Park on September 13 and 14th, 2024, started with a lot of fuss and commotion. For the first time, tickets went on sale after the lineup was announced. With Bruce Springsteen on the lineup, tickets sold out in seconds, and many long-time attendees were shut out in one of […]

The 38th Green River Festival took place from June 21-June 23 at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and although it faced many challenges – new ownership, severe thunderstorms, and even a tornado warning – one thing shone through: it is impossible to dampen the spirits or friendliness of the plucky people of the […]

If you were at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on Saturday night, March 30, 2024, at 8:45pm you witnessed a great performer light up the stage and reclaim his status as one of the more dynamic acts touring today. You see, it had been ten years since JJ Grey & Mofro released a […]

Sea.Hear.Now (SHN) is a two-day rock music festival that took place mostly on the beach in Asbury Park, NJ the weekend of September 16th & 17th. The festival runs from noon – 10:30pm and combines music (30 bands divided among three stages); art (several custom art installations, the statue of Asbury Park founder James Bradley […]

The 2023 Rhythm & Roots Festival took place over Labor Day weekend (Sept 1-3) at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island, and went off without a hitch. The festival was owned and operated by the Wentworth family who sold it to GoodWorks Entertainment just over a year ago. While it isn’t technically an independent festival […]

Expectations are high for first-year music festivals, especially those run by a large festival production company like C3 Presents/LiveNation. But combine that expertise with the seasoned staff and infrastructure of the Bethel Woods Arts Center, the mystique of holding a festival at the original Woodstock site, and perfect weather, and you get a beautifully-run festival […]

If you were one of the 3000 attendees at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on the evening of June 27th count yourself among the lucky ones. Rodrigo y Gabriela treated a theater full of fans to a 90-minute guitar fireworks show that would make the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks display envious. They are touring […]

The 2023 Green River Festival in Greenfield, MA delivered on an impressive folk-leaning line-up and its reputation as one of the most endearing local festivals in the country. The three-day festival took place over the weekend of June 23-25th with a number of regional and national acts performed on three main stages. The festival has […]

Ali McGuirk celebrated the release of her new CD Til It’s Gone with a blistering show on Thursday night at Brooklyn’s Bell House. The album is on the Signature Sounds label, is co-produced by Jonah Tolchin, a great singer-songwriter in his own right, and features some expert studio musicians like Fred Tackett. The show was […]

Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now is a fairly small festival produced by Danny Clinch – two days, three stages, five acts a day per stage, and it runs from noon to 10:30 pm each day, yet it boasts one of the stronger lineups that rock with the best of Lollapalooza and ACL. The main “Surf” stage is […]

The 2022 Green River Festival was another resounding success. This 2 ½ day, 3 ½ stage festival, that takes place at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield Massachusetts, has quietly become one of the best “small” festivals in the country. Every year, the festival does a great job booking some of the finest indie, folk, […]

New York City got a treat on Friday night May 13th as Grayson Capps played a short but tasty set at Stage 3 of the Rockwood Music Hall. Grayson plays in a number of configurations: solo, with a full band, and as a duo with his lead guitarist, Corky Hughes. Happily, he brought Corky north […]

One of the many benefits of going to music festivals is that there is so much music that you get to check out a ton of unknown (to you) acts and you usually “discover” a band that you really love. Such was the case for Dorothy first discovered at the 2018 Voodoo Festival in New […]

When Leah Wellbaum, the frontwoman for Slothrust, took the stage on April 10th, she remarked that it was her third time playing in Asbury Park and all three times were at Asbury Lanes. She said she wasn’t sure why they booked her a second time, because the first show only had 12 people in the […]

When the tour was first announced, there was some head-scratching: The Revivalists headlining Radio City Music Hall? Are they big enough? They had been playing on the big stages at Jazz Fest in New Orleans, but it was just a few years ago that they played a not quite sold-out Rockwood Music Hall (max capacity […]

Brian Jonestown Massacre doesn’t tour often, but when they do, the cult following of this prolific psychedelic rock band consistently delivers sellout crowds. However, those sellout crowds were surely put to the test over their two-night NY area run at Brooklyn Steel and White Eagle Hall (Jersey City, NJ) on March 29th and 30th with […]

When you tell someone you are going to a Drive-By Truckers show you get one of two responses. It is either, “cool, that should be an awesome show” or “they worth seeing live?” The answer to the second response is trickier than one would think. On the surface, they look like a southern rock band […]

The Mercury Lounge has been offering up early sets over the last few years (starting around 6 and ending around 8 pm). Most of these early sets are younger bands trying to get a foot in the proverbial NYC concert door. That was definitely not the case on October 24th when Vapors of Morphine took […]

Sunday brought slightly cooler weather, thinner crowds, and another day of good music to the sold-out Sea.Hear.Now festival. Lines were shorter, and it was much easier to move around and make it up to the front of the stages if your legs weren’t too tired from trekking through the sand from Saturday. The only folks […]