Show Reviews

Glide’s Andrew Bruss is providing day to day coverage of Jam Cruise 13 as it makes its way around sea over the course of five days.  Here are the highlights and photos from day 5 aboard the ship. Be sure to check out his coverage of day 4 here A Change of Plans: Our last […]

Glide’s Andrew Bruss is providing day to day coverage of Jam Cruise 13 as it makes its way around sea over the course of five days.  Here are the highlights and photos from day 4 aboard the ship. While Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid was sitting-in with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the Divina’s […]

Glide’s Andrew Bruss is providing day to day coverage of Jam Cruise 13 as it makes its way around sea over the course of five days.  Here are the highlights and photos from day 3 aboard the ship. Dry Land: After a day and two nights on the seas, Day Three started out docked at […]

Glide’s Andrew Bruss is providing day to day coverage of Jam Cruise 13 as it makes its way around sea over the course of five days.  Here are the highlights and photos from day 2 aboard the ship. Vote Nikki Glaspie for Captain: This Berklee College of Music-trained drummer has kept the beat for artists […]

A night of aesthetic excess and glamour, The Flaming Lips two night residency at The Warfield, concluding on New Years Eve, was a night of confetti explosions, balloons, costumes, colors, and a psychedelic blur that was compounded with performances by Foxygen and Phantogram. With the the recent release of With a Little Help from My […]

Every festival goer is on a mission to find that one festival that is so much fun that one makes certain to return each and every year. For a growing number of music aficionados that festival is the trailblazing and unique ROCK N ROCK RESORT. On New Year’s Eve, those at Rock N Roll Resort, […]

Gov’t Mule refuses to allow itself to become predictable. Even as the quartet continues an over decade-long tradition of New Year’s runs in New York and Philadelphia, the two nights at The Beacon Theatre in found Warren Haynes and co. looking and moving forward, using the past as touch-points for progress. Cover material and guest […]

Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker brought a loud, indie rock infused finale to the 2014 concert schedule at the historic Lobero Theater, in Santa Barbara December 29th. The Northern California (originally from Redlands) band Camper Van Beethoven opened the show with a spirited 75 minute set, showcasing new music, as well as their original classic […]

Phish finished their third ever four-night run at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida Saturday night. With rumors circulating that the band plans to have a much lighter touring schedule in 2015, attending fans were treated to a complete show from start to finish, punctuating a solid multi-night run to welcome 2015. A special shout […]

You never know what you’re going to get at a Phish show. Without placing absolutes on something that in spirit is best served organic, that’s the way it should be. This is not to say that the whole third offering from Phish’s four-night run in Miami, FL provided spontaneous energy, excitement, and music at American […]

Phish played their second show of a four night run at American Airlines Arena last evening. The show featured an interesting start and finish, but largely failed to inspire a majority of those who were in attendance. For the jam lovers out there, don’t even bother with this one. However, if you like tight, sharp […]

Live and direct from Miami, Florida, Happy New Year Everyone! To ring in 2015, Phish played their final performance of 2014 last evening; their ninth ever show at American Airlines Arena. The band played three full sets of music last night, including a New Years gag that found the group starting their third set with […]

Melissa Etheridge led her funky rocking blues band through a ninety minute set of old and new music at the Chumash Casino Resort on one of the stormiest nights in recent memory. The evening started with a seasonal ceremony honoring the “Toys For Tots” program administered by local Marines. The concert was a fundraiser for […]

Chris Smither has played countless shows in his lengthy career, but none quite like this one at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts. This show was a night of celebration as it honored the blues-influenced singer-songwriter’s recent 70th birthday and his 50-year career making music.  But that wasn’t all – this evening also kicked […]

Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers once described Centro-matic as “his favorite band that is still vital and intact.” This quote resonates with a bittersweet feeling now; on the one hand hearing such a respected songwriter call the Denton group his “favorite” and “vital” is the upmost compliment, but on the other hand, by the […]

When’s the last time you went to an evening of music headlined by an accordion player and based on the adventures of a man named Chicken – and then laughed uproariously, loved the music, and cried over the life story of someone you’ve never met? If you’re like this author, the above sentence seems completely […]

The best part about playing in Los Angeles, Brad Barr told the packed room at the Satellite on Friday night, is putting Samuel Jackson on the guest list and hoping he shows up. From what I could tell, Mr. Jackson did not take advantage of this honor, but the band provided enough star power to […]

Over 26 years of existence, Warren Haynes Presents The Christmas Jam has come to mean many things to many people. The event is most importantly a charitable home run for Habitat For Humanity. But it’s also an annual musical rite, a celebration of a longstanding southern musical community, and a tribute to Haynes’ hometown of […]

Dave Stewart, the mercurial English rock guitarist best known as half of one of the most successful pop duo’s of the 1980’s, the Eurythmics, brought another magical night of music to Hollywood on December 8th at The Roxy. Stewart has been a regular fixture in the Hollywood music scene over the last several years, playing […]

Old 97’s have been kicking ass for over twenty years, and what better way to celebrate than to play the album that put them on the map in its entirety live. Normally the full album live concept can be hit or miss to say the least, but when a band is celebrating their accomplishments with […]