Show Reviews

Every year, the options for events held during the days between New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival weekends grow larger. One event that has been happening for 20 years is the Threadhead Cultural Foundation “Patry” and this year’s lineup was one of the best the non-profit organization has ever offered up.  Held at Deutsches Haus, […]

The Savage Imperial Death March Part II tour stopped in Orlando, Florida, on Friday for a night of crowd-pleasing, eclectic heavy rock from icons that have played sweaty clubs for decades. But before the rocking, the night opened with a strange set by Dark Sky Burial, a side project of Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury.  […]

Friday, April 25th, marked a return home for My Morning Jacket to their hometown of Louisville, KY. MMJ was set to play a round of homecoming shows in 2022 but were forced to cancel due to illness. Since 2016, they have only played twice in Louisville, both at larger shows: the KFC YUM Center in […]

With the well-received new album The Crux released earlier this month, Djo – the musical project of Joe Keery – embarked on the Back on You World Tour. With the band’s sold-out run continuing in Detroit, the hype was palpable: Interest in the show resulted in the Michigan stop moving up from Royal Oak Music […]

Metal titans Bullet for My Valentine and Trivium teamed up to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of some of their fan-favorite records: BFMV’s The Poison and Trivium’s Ascendancy. Together, the bands dubbed their current run The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour, which stopped by a packed house at the Fillmore Detroit, with strong support from Bleed From Within […]

2025 started terribly for Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith, the brothers who form the core lineup of folk-rock outfit Dawes. They both lost their homes in the Altadena fire in Los Angeles in January, as well as their recording studio with pretty much every piece of equipment they owned. In a twist of tragic irony, it […]

Philadelphia is home to one of the most vibrant art scenes the States has to offer, and April 27 saw the homecoming of one of its most unsung heroes. Domenic Palermo, Philly-native and frontman of shoegaze titans Nothing, brought the second installment of Slide Away Festival home for a one-night fest of legendary comebacks. The […]

Anticipation was shattered the second song of set two last night. The highly hoped for notes of “Tweezer” were not simply teased as they were during the first set “Gumbo” but sent in a rather wild manner, catapulting the sold-out Bill Graham Civic Center into a frenzy that only “Tweezer” can bring. But that was […]

On Saturday, April 19th, Djo brought his electric energy to Phoenix’s Van Buren. Lead singer Joe Keery, known for his acting roles in films such as Free Guy, Spree, and Stranger Things, fronted the band with his confident demeanor, opening the show with the band’s 2022 track, “Gloom”. Starting with an older song isn’t a calculated move, but it […]

The last time the four members of Phish all set foot in Portland, it was a different century. September 12, 1999 at the now-gone Portland Meadows, to be exact. In the more than twenty-five years since that date, a lot has happened. The Vermont jam legends played a marathon show to usher in the new […]

Los Angeles indie rockers Cheekface brought its quirky music to The Social in Orlando on Monday night April 14th, celebrating oddball narratives and danceable grooves. Pacing, singer-songwriter Katie McTigue’s project, started the night with a thirty-minute set of eccentric folk rock. Backed by a drummer and a multi-instrumentalist, McTigue sang stories with a tongue-in-cheek delivery […]

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart is back on tour and celebrating fifty-plus years since their debut album, Dreamboat Annie, was released to critical acclaim. Helping to define the hard rock sound of the 1970s, the rock and roll outfit fronted by the exceptionally talented sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson is still a force to be […]

Deep in the Saharan desert in the country of Niger lies Agadez, a city that is known for its mysterious desert rock music. After many years playing weddings and other gigs throughout Agadez, Etran De L’Aïr has caught fire internationally and now spends much of their time bringing their Saharan rock to increasingly larger audiences […]

A sold-out crowd packed into the House of Blues Orlando for a night of unique alternative metal led by Los Angeles singer Poppy. The duo House of Protection opened the show with a thirty-minute set of energetic Prodigy-influenced industrial. Guitarist Stephen Harrison and drummer Aric Improta jumped, flailed, and flipped onstage while serving up frenzied […]

When the Soul Queen of New Orleans, Irma Thomas, first recorded with the funk outfit Galactic in 2010, the resulting single “Heart of Steel” became a staple in both of their respective live sets. While it took a while, they have pared back up for a whole album’s worth of goodness titled Audience with the […]

Last month, prolific journeyman rocker and Hüsker Dü member Bob Mould released his fifteen solo album Here We Go Crazy. This is his first new album in five years and one that finds him embracing more of a guitar-pop sound, marking a slight but welcome departure from his punk roots. Just a couple of weeks […]

This year, emo stalwarts The Used are celebrating the band’s 25th anniversary, so the band unveiled a special tour where they are playing three nights in a city, dedicating one of their first three albums (self-titled, In Love and Death, and Lies for the Liars) to each evening. After kicking off in Detroit with their […]

As hordes of fans filtered through the ornate lobby of Washington D.C’s historic Warner Theatre on April 4th, the sense of anticipation in the air was palpable. After all, it’s not every day that they get to experience Trey Anastasio, the beloved Phish frontman usually relegated to performing in cavernous arenas and amphitheaters at an […]

The Greyboy Allstars are celebrating the upcoming May release of Grab Bag: 2007-2023, their eighth LP, which includes nine cuts previously unreleased over the past decade and a half of the band’s 30-year history. The quintet is also playing a few live dates leading up to their appearance at Tipitina’s as part of the New […]

Downtown Knoxville pulsed with energy as Big Ears Festival 2025 welcomed over 7,500 passionate music lovers for a long weekend of genre-defying performances and boundary-pushing artistry. Widely considered one of the most adventurous and thoughtfully curated festivals in the world, Big Ears once again proved that no other event offers such a kaleidoscopic journey through […]