Show Reviews

Jesse Malin pulled into his local surroundings on Saturday Night March 25th to play Webster Hall celebrating the 20th anniversary of his debut solo album, The Fine Art of Self Destruction.  The sold-out crowd was full of old friends and family as the East Village mainstay was warmly welcomed home. 

“Once you get it, you can’t forget it.” Robbie Robertson’s lyric, from The Band’s iconic 1970 track “The W.S. Wolcott Medicine Show”, a song which has often been interpreted as an allegorical commentary on the music business as a whole, as well as the slippery-slope-laden lifestyle that accompanies being a rock star, has apparently found […]

The Winery Dogs brought their masterful power trio sound to New Orleans House of Blues.

After a few years off Michael Dorf’s “Music Of…” concert series returned to New York’s Carnegie Hall last week for one of its biggest nights yet – The Music of Paul McCartney

Back in the early 1980s, in my pre-teen years, I made my first attempt at staying up all night. It was at a county fair in a rural Nebraska town, where lots of farm kids were allowed to spend the night, often on makeshift beds in the back of stock trailers, without the close supervision […]

Anyone looking for proof that rock and roll is alive and well need only attend a performance by the Country Westerns and Titus Andronicus. Hailing from Nashville and New Jersey, the two bands each have their own styles, with the Country Westerns drawing from the alt-country and barroom rock and Titus Andronicus embracing a grandiose, […]

Meet Me @ The Altar put a bright spotlight on a new generation of pop-punk, with support from Daisy Grenade and Young Culture at Ferndale’s The Loving Touch

When S.G. Goodman played Portland, Oregon’s Pickathon festival this summer to a packed and sweaty crowd in the Galaxy Barn, it was safe to say she won over just about every person in attendance. She was one of the most buzzed artists of the festival and clearly that appearance paid off when the Kentucky artist […]

Weyes Blood brought her “In Holy Flux” Tour to New York last weekend for a sold-out two-night stand at East Williamsburg staple Brooklyn Steel.

If there is such a thing as a band’s band, The Sadies are it. For going on three decades, the Toronto group has been cutting through the fog with their own style of what might best be described as Western gothic alt-country. Their road warrior status and their considerable chops as musicians have made them […]

Winter squalls with snow and freezing rain couldn’t keep Bayside’s fans away from a sold-out gig at Detroit’s St. Andrew’s Hall on March 3rd.

Baseball and Rock N Roll mingled once again at the fifth Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park (AZ) on February 25th and 26th. This year’s event featured Green Day, Eddie Vedder, Weezer, Marcus Mumford, The Black Crowes, The Revivalists, The Offspring, The Bronson Arroyo Band, Mt. Joy, Head & The Heart, The Pretty Reckless, Umphrey’s McGee, Heartless Bastards and more.

Jerry Cantrell has been touring continually for the past couple of years in support of Brighten, his first solo album since Degradation Trip in 2002.

In town for a performance on Saturday Night Live a few days later, Jack White spent Wednesday night in Bushwick shaking the rafters of the 1,800-capacity Brooklyn Steel

It’s been a minute since Margo Price has graced a Portland, Oregon stage, what with the lost years of COVID, etc. From the “anarchist jurisdiction” out here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve watched through a social media lens as Price has released albums and videos, written books, become a board member of Farm Aid, and […]

Bluegrass is having a moment right now and Montana’s the Kitchen Dwellers are clearly in the right place. This was evidenced by their sold out show at the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon on Saturday, February 11th. Though the current excitement around bluegrass revolves primarily around acts like Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, who have […]

The pairing of Black Joe Lewis and the Pimps of Joytime in a co-headlining tour is somewhat of an odd choice, at least on the surface. Each act has a totally different musical style, with Black Joe Lewis gravitating towards blues and rock and roll, and the Pimps centering on funk, disco and world music. […]

The best shows, though, turn a Monday night into a Friday night we will never forget. That is what The Wood Brothers did this past Monday night, February 6, at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz,

Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Anthrax with special guests Black Label Society and Exodus, continue to crisscross the US to bring metal to the masses one city at a time.

The Disco Biscuits have always been something of an enigma. Even now, just two years shy of their thirtieth anniversary, the Philadelphia-based quartet continues to carve their own path in the jamband world’s increasingly homogenous musical landscape with their innovative “trancefusion” sound.