Show Reviews

Head for the Hills played a small show Thursday night in Eugene. A lower turnout moved the show to the small stage at Hi-Fi Music Hall, resulting in an intimate bar show. The night was kicked off by Trout Steak Revival, who have joined Head for the Hills on their current tour. Head for the […]

Photo via Instagram user @alikwong Tragedy was ripe in the minds of those gathered at the Mohawk. Paris was under attack and the epicenter of the carnage had been focused around a rock concert. Yet here they were; punks, goths, hipsters, scenesters, and the undefined had gathered in solidarity to shirk the fear-mongering hate intended […]

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 […]

“This is the last show of this tour. My voice is fucked! I need you to sing with me.” pleaded Justin Hawkins, the tattoo-laden singer and guitarist of the UK rock and roll quartet after storming through the first two songs of the set. Supporting their latest, and almost their greatest album, Last of Our […]

Photo by Southern Reel via Facebook Zac Brown Band played a killer show on their Jekyll and Hyde Tour Sunday night at the Austin360 Amphitheater. As a Grammy award-winning band with four studio albums and ten singles that have reached #1 on the Billboard country charts, Zac Brown Band surprised the crowd by playing three […]

All photos by Merrick Ales unless otherwise noted. The final day of Fun Fun Fun Fest was gifted with the kind of weather that promoters, attendees, and artists dream about. Under a blue sky dotted with clouds, those three groups and everyone else at Auditorium Shores basked in sunshine that had been missing the previous two days. […]

All photos by Merrick Ales unless otherwise noted. Saturday of Fun Fun Fun Fest saw a crowd nearly double the size of Friday’s trampling across damp grass from the previous night’s rain. There was a palpable sense of eagerness in the air as fans of all ages sought to check off bucket list acts and conjure a […]

Oklahoma’s Turnpike Troubadours followed up their 2014 raucous Boston performance with much more of a slow burn when they hit the Wilbur Theater this time around. But once the fuse was lit, the Wrangler jean, big belt buckled, trucker hat-clad band knew how to stoke the fire until it burned the house down. Pharmacist by […]

All photos by Merrick Ales unless otherwise noted. Under overcast skies the tenth anniversary of Fun Fun Fun Fest kicked off at Auditorium Shores in Austin on Friday. Luckily, the looming rain held off save for a bit of drizzle. Perhaps it was a blessing from the rock gods, as the first day of FFF […]

What happens when you combine luchadores, theatrics, and Maynard James Keenan’s brand of electro-rock? You get a Puscifer show, the longtime side project that Maynard describes as his “creative subconscious”. Currently touring on their recently released LP Money Shot, Austin’s Bass Concert Hall was the second stop on the tour. Though both of Keenan’s other […]

Keller Williams is the definition of multi-instrumentalist if there ever was one. Guitar, bass, keys, and a few other gadgets, Mr. Williams has long been recognized in the jam band world as the “one man band”. On Friday evening Williams made a stop in Bethlehem, PA at Musikfest Cafe located in the historic Bethlehem SteelStacks. […]

A veritable army of veteran rockers showed up to jam at El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on November 3rd. The event, which may have been one of the best rock shows of the year, in Southern California, featured the Hellcat Saints. The band was the idea of former Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner and […]

The Infamous Stringdusters have been making their mark in the bluegrass and jam scene for quite some time now with their energetic live shows, fan interaction and virtuosic playing. On Thursday night the band treated New York to a live performance when they hit the Brooklyn Bowl. Starting off the evening right were Wisconsin jamgrass […]

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 […]

It was the night before Halloween and GIVERS took the indoor stage at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin sporting matching painted skull faces. They are currently touring in support of the November 13 release of their sophomore album New Kingdom, their first since 2011. Hailing from Lafayette, Louisiana they bring a unique sound to the realm […]

Go big or go home, right. At the 2015 Voodoo Music & Arts Experience, they did so whether they wanted to or not. Following a great start on Friday, weather-wise, Saturday turned ominous, the skies opened up and the ground turned to mud. So much so that on Sunday morning, the organizers and powers-that-be decided […]

UK art rockers Django Django brought their unique blending of electro-psych rock to the Mohawk on Wednesday night. Touring on their sophomore release Born Under Saturn, this was their first time back to Austin in three years, where they also played at Mohawk, and the crowd’s excitement was palpable. As the band took the stage […]

Deadheads looking for a little company this fall will definitely have something to cheer. Last night in Albany we got our first-ever look at the latest incarnation supporting three core Grateful Dead members along with a few new faces, notably a crispy guitarist who seemed willing and more than able to prove he belongs. Dead […]

“We just heard before the show tonight, that all of our shows on this tour are now sold out.” exclaimed Luke Spiller, the humble frontman of Derby, England’s The Struts. And, there’s good reason for this news. There’s been a lot of hype about the band after forming in 2012 and their series of headlining […]

It’s the 1990s and homogenization is spreading across the music industry, infiltrating MTV and further lobotomizing radio. The effects of major label subsidiary operations had all but dismantled and expunged independent labels from the market. In 1989 A&M Records, one of the country’s most successful indie labels, was sold to Polygram. A year later the […]