Idles, Green Day, Stevie Nicks, Cage the Elephant Shine at Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival (FESTIVAL REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
Allison Russell, Dustbowl Revival, Rayland Baxter, Guster & More Highlight 2022 Green River Festival (FESTIVAL REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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, […]
Grayson Capps & Corky Hughes Give Rockwood Music Hall Intimate Song & Story Set (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
Dorothy Brings Its Vivacious Hard Blues Rock To Montclair (NJ) Wellmont Theatre (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
Slothrust Keeps It Brash, Dark & Poetic at Asbury Lanes (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
The Revivalists Earn The Big Time at Radio City Music Hall (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 Compromises For Nobody at Brooklyn Steel (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
Drive-By Truckers Kick Off Brooklyn Bowl Run With Resounding Anthems (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
Vapors of Morphine Break The Right Musical Rules at NYC’S Mercury Lounge (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
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 […]
Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Idol Liz Cooper, Strand of Oaks Lead Sea.Hear.Now Day 2
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 […]