Show Reviews

A sold-out fashionable looking lot packed The Bell House in Brooklyn on Thursday Night as an exuberant feeling was circling from the crowd to the stage and back again. Shannon and the Clams delighted all with their mix of surf pop and bright rock styles as they brought their Bay area artistic style east.  Opening […]

Steve Hackett made a stop at Tucson’s Fox Theatre on October 16th with his Genesis Revisited tour showcasing the 1973 landmark album Selling England By The Pound in its entirety. The album contains some of Genesis’ most decorated and experimental songs that include Firth of Fifth,” “The Battle of Epping Forest” and “The Cinema Show.” […]

Circles Around The Sun is currently on tour, in spite of the recent tragic death of founding guitarist Neal Casal. One of Casal’s final wishes was that Circles Around The Sun go through with this tour and the release of their EP Circles Around The Sun Meets Joe Russo, which came out on last Friday. […]

Hours before a daunting Nor’easter was set to hit New England, Northern Ireland’s Foy Vance and his crew set up shop at the historic Somerville Theatre outside Boston on Wednesday, October 16th. Foy (vocals/piano/guitar) and Paul Hamilton (drums/vocals) – delivered a moving and industrious set that was chock full of emotion and verve! It had […]

Mudhoney’s recent show at Asheville’s Grey Eagle (10/10)  was everything a Thursday night concert should be. It was loud, it was fast, it was in your face and raw as hell, starting with the first note of Pissed Jeans’ opening set and running straight through to the very end when Mark Arm and co. walked […]

In September, Hiss Golden Messenger released a sweet new album, Terms of Surrender, on Merge Records. On Wednesday, October 9th, M.C. Taylor brought his band to the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon to explore his groove-infused ruminations. If you can know a man by the company he keeps, it might be worth mentioning that a […]

Paul Cauthen is currently on a swing through the Western U.S., part of an extensive tour supporting his newest studio effort, Room 41. At a sold out Doug Fir Lounge on Tuesday, October 8th, Cauthen and his bandmates worked through a solid set that showcased his powerful baritone voice, his songwriting chops, and the ample […]

The acclaimed storyteller, one of our best songwriters in the past three decades, Chris Knight, returns with his first album in over seven years with Almost Daylight. This is Knight’s ninth album. He’s an artist that has long been adored by singer-songwriter aficionados but remained relatively under the radar in the early part of his […]

Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society and Boston’s BLS chapter were once again reunited for an explosive evening that proved to be an unforgiving assault on the senses. Black Label Society (Zakk Wylde/guitar/piano/vocals, John DeServio/bass, Jeff Fabb/drums and Dario Lorina/guitar, are currently touring behind the exceptional Grimmest Hits and celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their flagship […]

The quietest performance of Jimmie Vaughan’s two-hour-plus set at the Barre Opera House October 4th was, probably not coincidentally, one of the most extended ones as well. He introduced it as a ‘sexy, slow’ number and it came right after he invited the audience to fill the open floor area right in front of the […]

The last album Thurston Moore released, 2017’s Rock n Roll Consciousness, contained some of the most engaging and brightly psychedelic based tunes of his career. Now Moore follows his more experimental muse to an extreme, releasing Spirit Counsel, a three-CD Box Set on his Daydream Library Series record label. These instrumental numbers are not for […]

You could feel the energy in Zilker Park was different the minute you stepped on the grounds for the final day of weekend one of the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Fest) on Sunday, October 6. There was a buzz of expectation that hung over the park like electric fog in some unreal musical […]

Wannabe recently made his way to the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival, which took place September 27-29 in Columbia, Missouri. This year’s lineup featured Maren Morris, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, John Prine, Mandolin Orange, Patty Griffin, The Mavericks, and many more. Note: Click each image for higher resolution. 

Fresh off the release of their acclaimed new album Forever Turned Around, Whitney headed to Brooklyn Steel for a two-night stand. Despite a dreary fall rain drizzling outside, the Chicago folk-rockers brought plenty of warm sounds from their discography. Dressed to the nines in matching suits, the band even wrangled in a string quartet for […]

Day one of the 2019 edition of Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Fest) was stacked with incredible talent at Zilker Park. Tame Impala delivered another stellar performance while Guns n Roses played at the opposite end of the park. Thom Yorke (Radiohead) performed on the Miller Lite Stage as Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes. The Raconteurs […]

There was perhaps no better way to kick off the 18th year of Austin City Limits Music Festival on Thursday, October 3rd than with The Raconteurs featuring the incomparable Jack White and his partner-in-crime Brendon Benson. The pair led a crack band on a 75-minute excursion into rock n roll punctuated by mind-melting guitar solos, […]

Perhaps it gets to the point as a writer that you become too close to something, too wrapped up in the beauty of a thing that you cannot adequately, or objectively report on it? Sitting down and trying to review this year’s installment of the Lost Sierra Hoedown has been nearly impossible. So much so […]

The 2019/2020 Boston Lyric Opera’s opener Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci again brings an inventive staging and design to their products that promote a carnival-like atmosphere, that invigorates the storyline and engages the audience. Following the plot of a traveling troupe of performers, going from town to town, “Pagliacci” tells a short but intense story of “love, […]

Black clouds rollin’ up the valley, Black Clouds coverin’ up the sun. The weather may have brought a wintery storm to Oregon, but the String Cheese Incident did everything in their power to heat things up with songs and styles that spanned decades of creativity. After 25 years, they still have some tricks up their […]

Two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck together illuminated the Hollywood Bowl on September 27, 2019, in an incredible concert. Backed by Stewart’s fabulous band, the two former British bandmates (the Jeff Beck Group, circa 1968) easily sold out the Bowl, drawing over 17,000 fans, who witnessed the most […]