Show Reviews

This past Wednesday, May 20, guitar legends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai graced the stage together as the SATCHVAI Band at Boston’s Leader Bank Pavilion for not only a cataclysmic meeting of fretboard wizardry, but to celebrate a common bond with their love of music and their decades-long friendship. At this point, the history between […]

The semi-annual Exit Zero Jazz Festival, its twenty-sixth edition, was held May 15-17, 2026, in the nation’s oldest ocean resort, Cape May, NJ, featuring many of the top performers in jazz, emerging stars and veterans alike, with a sun-splattered, ocean-facing deck that also hosted performances, on a weekend that offered practically summer weather. All performances […]

The best kind of music makes you take stock of your own life. Kevin Morby is a man currently taking stock, and his fans are right along for the ride. Morby’s latest album Little Wide Open (REVIEW) finds the ever-evolving songwriter and rocker reflecting on love, death, rebirth, a sense of place, and plenty of […]

Dry Cleaning have been on the up and up for several years now, but with the release of their new album Secret Love (REVIEW), they seem to be connecting on a larger scale than ever before. Perhaps their blend of post-punk and spoken word, led by Florence Shaw, speaks to the nihilism of our time […]

A couple of years ago, just days after the release of their debut LP, Brigitte Calls Me Baby walked out onto the Lollapalooza stage to play in front of thousands. Months later, they continued to perform for huge crowds, opening for bands like Fontaines D.C., Muse, The Last Dinner Party, and playing several shows in […]

Bruce Springsteen’s emotionally charged, politically angry, and incredibly moving Land of Hope and Dreams tour pulled into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on a gorgeous spring night, Thursday, May 14th. The sold-out crowd got to experience The Boss with the full E-Street Band, along with special guest Tom Morello, delivering twenty-seven powerful songs as well as a few from-the-heart […]

For the third night in a row, Jon Batiste demonstrated to a capacity crowd at Boston’s Symphony Hall that he’s more than just a singer, songwriter, pianist, and award-winning composer. He’s a genuine National Treasure.  Before the NOLA native and his quartet joined the orchestra, Conductor Keith Lockhart led the Boston Pops through a smooth-as-silk […]

Ghalia Volt’s sixth album, Burn The House Down, was recorded in Nashville as Volt expanded her sound from her previous one-woman band style. Returning to the raw blues sound that first brought her attention, Volt sings with fire and plays with confidence on the satisfying record.  Working with producer JD Simo, the album is focused […]

The inaugural Santa Monica International Jazz Festival took place at various venues in the beachfront city that is part of greater Los Angeles. The festival is the brainchild of legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, who served as artistic director and one of the performers. Clarke has lived in Santa Monica for over 30 years, and, due […]

Dave Matthews Band stopped by Austin’s Moody Center on Monday, May 11th and, above all, it was a night of nostalgia. Not nostalgia as a gimmick, but as a quiet force that slowly filled the room, the kind that reminds a crowd why these songs became part of their lives in the first place. The […]

Canadians Mac DeMarco and Mock Media kookily commandeered Denver’s Mission Ballroom on May 3rd, completely selling out the roughly 4,000-person venue.  To kick things off, up-and-comers Mock Media, a four-piece band, set the stage nicely for Mac DeMarco’s hilarious musical antics. Comprised of Evan Aasen and Austin Boylan wielding electric guitars, Bennett Smith behind the […]

There are plenty of things you can do on a southern spring night – sit on your back porch and enjoy a sunset, catch fireflies, or take in a baseball game. But on Saturday, May 02, 2026, my checkmark landed on the concert box. With Samantha Fish coming into Biloxi’s IP Casino & Resort with […]

The night of Wednesday, April 29, BADBADNOTGOOD played an exploratory and hypnotic sold-out show at Denver’s Summit Music Hall, the last stop of a short U.S. tour. The day of, BBNG stopped by local independent Denver-Boulder area radio station KGNU for an interview before chowing down at the Colorado-based burrito bistro Illegal Pete’s. Filled with […]

Fishbone, founding fathers of the ska/punk/funk/metal genre, were built for times like these. Across four decades, the LA-based band that launched an army of “Fuck Racism” T-shirt-clad kids has sung about everything from nuclear anxiety (“Party at Ground Zero”) and government overreach (“Subliminal Fascism”) to the poverty cycle (“So Many Millions”) and, more recently, the […]

The Queens of the Stone Age aren’t playing it safe for the fair-weather fans on their current tour. Instead, they’re leaning into their theatrical side with the closest thing to a rock opera we can expect from a band that continues to evolve nearly thirty years in. The band is currently in the midst of […]

On April 26, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit stopped at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida, for a night of heartfelt Americana. The veteran singer-songwriter was backed by his five-piece band, made up of guitarist Sadler Vaden, bassist Anna Butterss, drummer Chad Gable, Derry deBorja on keys, and Will […]

This past Saturday (April 25th) in Las Vegas, a (fittingly) gray overcast sky greeted the tens of thousands of black-clad/angst-inclined humans that descended in droves upon the Las Vegas Fairgrounds. Which, of course, could only mean one thing: the annual Sick New World Festival was clearly back in town! Indeed, after taking a brief hiatus […]

Hot off their much-buzzed-about appearances at Coachella, North Carolina rock outfit Wednesday descended on Portland, Oregon, for two sold-out nights at Revolution Hall on April 21st and 22nd. The band is no stranger to this city, having wowed Pickathon Music Festival in 2023 and subsequent shows that have only fueled their fire. By the time […]

Since forming around 2012 with something of an all-star lineup, The Delines have been making waves with a steady output of music that blends the literary voice of accomplished author Willy Vlautin with the soulful nuance of singer Amy Boone. With their roster solidified by Cory Gray on keys and trumpet, Sean Oldham holding down […]

On April 9, the Two Tours Collide tour stopped at the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Florida, for a night celebrating guitar mastery and blues roots. For two months, Samantha Fish’s Paper Doll Tour and Tab Benoit’s I Heart Thunder Tour combine for co-headlining shows without an opener. The show […]