2006

Greyboy Allstars : Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR 3/10/2006

Jason Gershuny March 22, 2006 No Comments

In a time where, there are more self-proclaimed “All-star” bands out there then actual stars in the industry, this one lives up to the billing and then some. The Greyboy Allstars are truly a celestial combination of musicians, that have truly earned the moniker “Allstars” In one jam they can tickle your mind with harmonically layered tunes that the most cerebral focused music fans out there would be attracted to, while they can simultaneously add raw groovin’ nastiness in the same song for those whose bodies just need to funk out

Nine Black Alps: Everything Is

Brian Gearing March 22, 2006 No Comments

Dates and times may be arbitrary human attempts to impose order amid the chaos, but the precision with which musical fads shift every time the ball drops can

Silverstein / Spitalfield / Stretch Arm Strong / With Honor / Dropping Daylight : HoB, Cleveland OH 2/23/2006

Robert Massie March 21, 2006 No Comments

The golden sounds Silverstein and their hand-picked lineup of friends provided made this foray truly fruitful and made fans musical millionaires for the night.

Shooter Jennings : Martini Ranch, Scottsdale, AZ 3/15/2006

Shane Handler March 21, 2006 No Comments

With a back up band that looks more L.A. than Nashville, it’s hard to take Shooter for straight up country, especially when he says, “we’re country music,” while one guitar riff teases Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf,” and another purges in psychedelic excess.

Matisyahu: Youth

Shane Handler March 20, 2006 No Comments

By now you

The Subways: Young for Eternity

Jason Keil March 20, 2006 No Comments

Truth is that there is nothing as complex as the teenage mind to be had on The Subway’s Young for Eternity, just a teenager screaming as loud as he can over second-hand riffs. Corporate synergy once again fails. The one positive thing Young for Eternity might accomplish is that the pre-teens who purchase it may find this as dreadful as I did and learn that they can