Show Reviews

It was an extremely entertaining and thought-provoking night of intense music, political commentary, and theatrical drama as Roger Waters brought his long-delayed “This Is Not a Drill” tour to Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles on September 28, 2022. The outspoken musical genius delivered a masterful performance with the support of a fantastic band of […]

Twenty years ago, Toronto was home to one of the coolest indie rock scenes on the planet. The acts that came out of this scene generally skewed towards rock with sharp underpinnings of pop and an underlying sense of cool. The hippest of these acts and quite possibly the nucleus was the collective known as […]

It’s rare an artist in his mid 50’s becomes more artistically relevant amongst multi-generations than Damon Albarn. At this point, it’s almost guaranteed if you had to ask anyone under 30 what their favorite Blur album is, few will even be able to conjure up a Parklife, Leisure, or Great Escape. Instead today Albarn’s most […]

Farm Aid remains the largest annual benefit concert for family farmers across the United States since 1985. The benefit was founded by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young, while Dave Matthews joined the “board” in the 90s, while Margo Price joined last year. The benefit’s existence is edging toward their four-decade when Nelson and […]

A new festival popped up this year to help close out the northeast states festival season – Sound on Sound in Bridgeport, Connecticut on September 24-25. The lineup was solid and a mix of proven draws, currently hot bands, and up-and-coming acts. The twelve daily musical acts alternated between two side-by-side stages so it was […]

It was another awesome night of live music at Asheville’s Rabbit Rabbit on September 22nd, the former parking lot turned 4500 capacity outdoor music venue. In the last month, the venue has hosted Jack White, Father John Misty, and Ween. It’s a great night for Ashevillians, as Austin’s Shakey Graves is playing another large capacity […]

Phish fans love to throw around the saying “never miss a Sunday show” as a way of implying that the Vermont jam legends sometimes bust out their best musical moments on what is considered a sleeper night. The band’s frontman Trey Anastasio put this to the test when he brought his band to the gorgeous […]

A cold wind blew through Boston’s Seaport district early Friday evening, September 23, 2022, as Father John Misty and his opener, Suki Waterhouse, prepared to take the stage. An outdoor venue, the Leader Bank Pavilion lay exposed to the gusts from Hurricane Fiona making landfall up the coast in Canada. Still, the fans streamed in, […]

Michael Sanders is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. A Baton Rouge, Louisiana native, Sanders lived in NYC for about five years leading up to the pandemic before relocating to Austin, TX. After playing in bands his whole life, Sanders has taken the past year or so to start putting more effort into a solo career.  […]

Few bands define the indie rock scene of the early aughts like Spoon and Interpol. Though they experienced different levels of success, with Interpol venturing more into the mainstream, each band gained fans for making potently cool guitar-driven rock with untouchably hip lyricism and vocals. Unlike some of their peers, both bands have also never […]

The Joy Theater on Canal Street in New Orleans filled up early for the Friday night loud rock and roll show from the long-running Amherst, MA trio Dinosaur Jr. While the frivolity of the French Quarter was just a few blocks away, it was all reverb, pounding drums and glorious riffs blaring throughout the pristine […]

Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now is a fairly small festival produced by Danny Clinch – two days, three stages, five acts a day per stage, and it runs from noon to 10:30 pm each day, yet it boasts one of the stronger lineups that rock with the best of Lollapalooza and ACL. The main “Surf” stage is […]

Crystal clear blue skies and a scorching sun greeted the masses for the third and final day of Riot Fest at Douglas Park Sunday afternoon (September 18th). After two action-packed days of the festival, which was characterized by a very emo-centric Friday and a very punk-rock-focused Saturday, the pressure was on Day 3 to live […]

If Day 1 of Riot Fest was unofficially emo-day, then Day 2 on September 17th, proved to be the perfect antidote, given it was effectively classic hardcore punk day. Indeed, with such legendary bands as Fear, 7 Seconds, and of course the mighty Misfits on tap (who were headlining Saturday night), Day 2 of Riot […]

It’s been about twenty-five years since we last got a new record from Pavement, but that hardly factored into the excitement when the band announced their second reunion tour. The pandemic that delayed the tour only added to the anticipation to catch these beloved indie rock heroes. But now, here we are in late 2022 […]

The Outlaw Music Festival, established in 2016, once again hit the road with an all-star lineup. Led by Willie Nelson, his family, and friends, the tour stopped in Mansfield, Massachusetts just outside of Boston this past Friday, September 16th. The Avett Brothers, Billy Strings, Larkin Poe, Brittney Spencer, and Nelson’s son’s Particle Kid rounded out […]

A positively gorgeous Friday afternoon (9/16) greeted the masses for the first day of Riot Fest, as Douglas Park was once again transformed into a vibrant rock and roll playground full of carnival rides, eclectically beautiful people, and of course loads of bands that ran the full spectrum from new-school rap metal, to old-school punk, […]

Booking a two-night residency in Chicago at the same time Riot Fest is going on down the street might be considered a bold move for some punk bands. But when your band happens to be venerable psych-punk legends the Osees, such concerns really need not apply. Granted, it probably didn’t hurt that day 1 of Riot […]

The world was a different place twenty years ago and it was still possible that a more or less unknown indie rock band from the Pacific Northwest could drop an album that would become part of the cultural lexicon for the next decade. Such was the case when The Shins released their debut album Oh, […]

When the Gaslight Anthem announced earlier this year that they were returning to the stage after calling it quits in 2015, it was met by fans with a combination of jubilation and “I told you so.” After all, the New Jersey stalwarts aren’t anywhere near retirement age and seem to have made it through a […]