Posts by Richard Clarke

St. Lucia is the synth-pop music group led by Jean-Philip Grobler. St. Lucia not only has a new album Hyperion out, but they have a new addition to the family. Grobler and bandmate wife, Patti Beranek welcomed a son this past December. Beranek, carrying the baby, happily waved to fans in line outside of Asbury Lanes in Asbury […]

The powerful and energetic rock band from Wales, The Joy Formidable, released their fourth album, AAARTH, this past September. The album title comes from arth, the Welsh word for bear with a couple more a’s for emphasis. Nearing the end of an extensive tour, the trio’s second to last stop landed them at The Music […]

After seventeen years, Seattle, Washington indie progressive rockers Minus the Bear are calling it quits. The band has released a final EP, Fair Enough, and embarked on huge national tour aptly titled The Farewell Tour. The tour hit Philadelphia on October 27th at the Franklin Music Hall,  formerly known as The Electric Factory. The beloved music […]

It does not get any more intimate for a show then the tiny performance space at Colony which is inside the restored 1929 hotel in Woodstock, New York. Okkervil River hit the artsy upstate town on June 15th for the second to last date on their current tour after releasing their latest album, In the […]

It has been a long time since the English rock band Editors toured the United States. Near the end of 2015, the band released their fifth album, In Dream. A tour of the U.S., slated for early 2016, was unfortunately canceled due to an illness that sidelined frontman Tom Smith. Now the band is back […]

Last year Minus the Bear embarked on a huge tour with a brand new album, Voids, giving their fans the first studio recording of new music since 2012’s Infinity Overload. The Seattle progressive indie band is back on the road this year celebrating the tenth anniversary of the group’s dynamic Planet of Ice album with […]

  Mutemath’s fifth album Play Dead was released in early September and the band’s tour in support of the new release made a stop at Philadelphia’s Fillmore on 9/19/17. It is actually amazing that the tour even got off the ground. With the new album in the can, Jonathan Allen was already replacing longtime bassist Roy […]

Grizzly Bear’s new album Painted Ruins was just released last Friday (8/18) and is their first new LP in five years. In support, the band booked four northeast dates before a full tour takes them through Europe and the United States beginning in October. Two of the four shows took place at BSP Kingston, which […]

Singer/songwriter/ guitarist Will Sheff’s Okkervil River played a string of Northeast shows in advance of their forthcoming LP Away due out September 9th. The short run of shows made a stop at Club Helsinki, a hidden gem of a music venue tucked away in the Catskill Mountain town of Hudson, NY. Personal and professional turmoil […]

Northeast progressive rock/dance music band Dopapod rolled into Kingston, NY, on the tail end of their spring tour along with funk/jazz duo Soule Monde. BSP Kingston opened up their larger back theater for the first time of the year for the show. A new modern stage was erected in front of the relic of the […]

The end of the winter doldrums is often a reason for celebration and four great bands joined together for a tour to provide an outlet for music fans to commemorate the coming of spring. The Spring Fling Rock AF 2016 tour made a stop at the 111 year old Main Street Armory in Rochester, NY. Music […]

Less can certainly be more, and that is definitely the case with two-piece rock band, The London Souls, at BSP Kingston in Kingston, NY on 1/30/16 whose minimalist approach yields big results. Tash Neal, guitar/vocals, and Chris St. Hilaire, drums/vocals, both rely on technique rather then technology. Neal’s hollow body guitar is run through only a few […]

Nashville band Bully, still basking in the glow of their debut album, Feels Like, hit the road again and landed in the sleepy upstate town of Hudson, NY to open their US tour. Club Helsinki is a very cool performance space with a vintage nightclub feel with tables on multiple levels that enhances the live […]

It has been a little more than a full lap around the sun since Minus the Bear was in Philadelphia touring in support of last year’s Lost Loves album, a collection of unreleased material. This year the band is touring to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the group’s second album, Menos el Oso and revisited […]

Indie/pop band Ra Ra Riot from Syracuse, NY wrapped up a five-date mini-tour of small clubs at BSP Kingston.  The band’s first tour in two years finished in the art-gallery-style front performance space of the old uptown Kingston Theater. Dedicated fans of the group, some traveling to all five northeast performances, were staking their spots […]

Music fans streaming into the newly opened Fillmore in Philadelphia for the sold out Star Wars themed Halloween show by veteran jam band moe. were given paper Imperial Stormtrooper masks. Fans were asked, as a surprise for the band, to put them on before they took the stage. Nearly 2,500 Stormtrooper faces greeted moe., when […]

Woodstock, New York may not be the hub of the flower child sub-culture that it was in the 60’s, that culminated during the Summer of Love, but it still has a vibrant art and robust music scene. The Bearsville Theater, now a part of the Bowery Presents family, nestled on The Sawkill Creek on Tinker […]

Philadelphia’s Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing, situated along the Delaware River with the Ben Franklin Bridge looming in the background, lives up to its name providing a real festival atmosphere among the urban sprawl of the City of Brotherly Love. San Diego California’s Slightly Stoopid, made their third stop on a 36-city tour in support […]

Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons may have gone through changes in personnel over the years, but there has always been one constant, Joseph’s powerful song writing. The artist is constantly adding to an already vast catalog of songs, and does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. Gone are long time Jackmormons bassist Junior […]

As if shot from a cannon, Irish musician Andrew Hozier-Byrne, now known globally as simply, Hozier, burst onto the music scene with the hit “Take Me to Church”. The viral music video of the song has over 140,000,000 views on YouTube. High profile appearances on Saturday Night Live, The Grammy Awards and Jimmy Fallon, along […]