Jazz Mandolin Project Returns With Commanding Chops & Presence at Boston’s Paradise Rock Club (SHOW REVIEW)
On February 5th, a rare sight was seen in Boston: the Jazz Mandolin Project was on the road beyond Burlington, Vermont, for their first tour in over 20 years. The quartet, with Jamie Masefield on mandolin, Danton Boller on upright bass, Michael “Mad Dog” Mavridoglou on keyboards and trumpet, and Phish’s own Jon Fishman on […]
Father John Misty & Suki Waterhouse Unveil Powerful Personas at Boston’s Leader Bank Pavillion (SHOW REVIEW)
A cold wind blew through Boston’s Seaport district early Friday evening, September 23, 2022, as Father John Misty and his opener, Suki Waterhouse, prepared to take the stage. An outdoor venue, the Leader Bank Pavilion lay exposed to the gusts from Hurricane Fiona making landfall up the coast in Canada. Still, the fans streamed in, […]
Brandi Carlile Proves Bold & Tenacious at Portland Maine’s Thompson Point (SHOW REVIEW)
On August 27th, Brandi Carlile took the stage at Thompson’s Point in Portland, Maine, alongside her longtime musical companions, identical twin brothers Phil and Tim Hanseroff. “Hey everybody,” she called out to the several thousand folks in attendance. “I feel like a million bucks!” There had been some concern since this show had originally been […]
Bob Dylan Contradicts Himself: A Song-By-Song Breakdown of The Ambitious ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’
Last Friday (6/19), Bob Dylan released Rough and Rowdy Ways, his first album of originals since 2012’s Tempest. The album contains blues romps, hymns, dirges, meditations—all forms that allow Dylan to strut his way around the rock’n’roll that previously commanded his attention. As with his previous late-era releases, endless couplets spill from Dylan’s weathered-yet-expressive voice […]
Ranking Bob Dylan’s Albums and a Comprehensive Selected Track List
On October 13, 2016, Sara Danils, Secretary of the Swedish Academy, informed a room full of expectant reporters that,“The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” That day, Dylan’s official Twitter feed gestured toward the award with a retweet. That […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band/Soulive- House of Blues, Boston, MA 12/12/14 (SHOW REVIEW)
Led in equal parts by the married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, the Tedeschi Trucks Band (TTB) rolled into Tedeschi’s home state of Massachusetts last weekend for a two-night tour finale at the House of Blues in Boston. Both evenings, a sold-out crowd packed into the venue to see the band’s fusion brand of […]
On Tour With Spiritual Rez (Part 2), Winter Park, FL 3/12/4
Spiritual Rez continued their Florida swing on a Wednesday night in Winter Park, a historic, mossy, mansion-laden city just north of Orlando in the urban sprawl of Central Florida. The venue, Odin’s Den, a dim beer bar with two pool tables and a wrap-around bar, filled up with youthful reggae-rock devotees, bar flies caught in […]
On Tour with Spiritual Rez: Three Shows Along State Road A1A
Boston-based reggae rockers Spiritual Rez released their latest album Apocalypse Whenever on February 15, and as is their custom, immediately set out on tour. For the last month they’ve been traversing the East Coast in a long white van filled with eight people – seven musicians plus Doug the Merch Guy – hauling a trailer […]