Reviews

[rating=7.00] Creating something exquisite can require so many factors to serendipitously fall into place and fit just right. Right location, right time, right inspiration, right atmosphere. That was the case when three musicians came together to begin working on songs at a house outside Austin, TX after meeting on tour. Jonathan Meiburg, lead singer of […]

Dark Star Orchestra (DSO) rolled into Lake Tahoe, NV (Harrah’s) Sunday night (2/18) in the midst of a solid West Coast tour that ends later this week in San Diego, CA. No matter what DSO chooses to play on any given evening you are guaranteed to hear crispy musicianship, and energetic interpretations on the vast […]

The legendary Troubadour nightclub was buzzing early on a cold Valentines day evening in Beverly Hills. A seemingly endless line of enthusiastic music fans stretched around the block for the sold out concert. But this wasn’t the likes of Guns N Roses or Depeche Mode, both of which recently played much-hyped gigs at the tiny […]

Hot on the heels of his latest release Carry Fire, Robert Plant and his band, the Sensational Space Shifters, once again performed in Boston on February 15th to a sold-out Orpheum Theater. Plant’s set included several new songs from Carry Fire, selections from his solo career’s back catalog, cover songs from his influences and yes, […]

It’s fitting the main color scheme of Dave’s Pick’s Volume 25 is a bright deep orange. Binghamton, NY 11/6/77 is yet another cull from the treasure trove from whence came Cornell May 1977, a remarkably true-to-life recording by Betty Cantor-Jackson that finds the band on the proverbial fire during a show spreading throughout the three […]

Guitar wizard, Joe Satriani, recently brought his thirteenth installment of the G3 experience to Boston’s legendary Orpheum Theater on February 15th. On this go-around of the US leg of the tour, Satch invited Def Leppard’s Phil Collen and Dream Theater’s John Petrucci to share the bill. Satriani headlined the night in support of his most-recent […]

[rating=9.00] When Marlon Williams’ excellent and critically acclaimed self-titled album was released two years ago the narrative around it was predictably uniform, is a Kiwi the greatest hope for Americana country and folk music? The New Zealander’s sound was easy to fall in love with as he evoked the great 50s and 60s voices of […]

[rating=9.00] Eddie and the Cruisers is an ill-fated, 1983 movie about a New Jersey, rock’n’roll band that falls apart in the second act: inexplicably, the plot pivots from something legible to a Scooby Doo-style mystery that leads Tom Berringer on a car chase through a castle made of scrap metal in the middle of an […]

Marilyn Manson Proves Man of No Words in Boston (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

Let’s get this out of the way first: when At the Drive-In dissolved in 2001, it split into two groups. Singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez formed The Mars Volta. Singer/guitarist Jim Ward, drummer Tony Hajjar, and bassist Paul Hinojos formed Sparta. The Mars Volta went on to weirdness and Grammy success. Sparta stayed […]