Cheap Trick Bring Power Rock Extravaganza To Prior Lake, MN (PHOTOS)
Cheap Trick, still going strong 40+ years later, brought their power pop catalog to Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake MN on 3/8/19. Photos by Billy Briggs..
Pickathon Announces Lineup Adds Phil Lesh, Makaya McCraven, Ibibio Sound Machine, Dan Mangan
Pickathon announces new additions to an already stacked lineup, bringing a true American musical legend Phil Lesh, into the fold. Lesh will be performing two days at Pickathon as Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band. Also announced is a very special set from The Richard Swift Hex Band, featuring an all-star list of collaborators backed by a […]
Bourbon & Beyond Returns With Foo Fighters, Robert Plant, Zac Brown Band, John Fogerty, Daryl Hall & John Oates, ZZ Top
The World’s Largest Bourbon Festival, Bourbon & Beyond, will make its anticipated return to Louisville, KYFriday, September 20, Saturday, September 21, and Sunday, September 22, expanding to three days full of incredible music, unique culinary events, and unmatched experiences from the region’s best distilleries at the newHighland Festival Grounds At KY Expo Center. In addition to an unforgettable lineup of […]
SXSW FILM REVIEW: ‘Ms. White Light’ A Film With Charm to Spare
SXSW film debuts a charming romantic indie.
SXSW FILM REVIEW: ‘Snatchers’ A Fun But Flawed Horror Comedy
A lackluster script doesn’t quite hold this romp back.
The Hold Steady Run Loud & Proud at London’s Electric Ballroom (SHOW REVIEW)
The annual Hold Steady excursion to London got started Friday night, March 8th at the excellent Electric Ballroom smack in the heart of Camden. The band played too many friendly faces as hugs were exchanged, lyrics were shouted and beer/confetti was spilled as fans new and old serenaded the Brooklyn based band. Before the […]
SONG PREMIERE: Justin Roeland Hits Jangly Indie Rock Excellence With “Blood Drum”
There are artists who, with each note they play, have the innate ability to get you to recall the sum total of every bittersweet feeling you’ve ever had. Justin Roeland is undeniably one of those artists, even when he isn’t playing a “sad” or “melancholy” song per se. There are moments on his new album Doomed […]
Wylde, Mustaine, Satriani, Lang, Bramhall II, Johnson, Popovic Fire Up The Experience Hendrix Tour at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre (PHOTOS)
In today’s society which is dominated by hip-hop and pop groups, there seems to be much less focus on performers who play instruments, and very few of this group who have mastered them. It brings into question the future of the electric guitar, an instrument which once was the foundation of popular music. As you […]
State Champs Deliver Pop-Punk Perfection to Sold-Out Crowd at the Playstation Theater (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
Any one crowd surfer’s journey took perhaps 30 seconds, but the relentless tide pushed song after song throughout State Champs’ raucous, sold-out show at the Playstation Theater in NYC on March 8th. After “Safe Haven,” guitarist Tyler Szalkowski recalled how the band played a gig in Brooklyn around 2011 and “literally no one came.” (The […]
