2020

‘The Rhythm Section’ Loses the Beat (FILM REVIEW)

James Roberts January 31, 2020 No Comments

A decent premise is wasted in this forgettable spy thriller.

Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders Garcia Live Volume 12: 1/23/73 The Boarding House (ALBUM REVIEW)

Doug Collette January 31, 2020 2 Comments

Garcia Live Volume 12 offers some of, if not the most spirited, edgy performances yet released in this archival series. And while it’s not quite accurate to assign all the

TORRES Makes Her “Exact” Record By Means of ‘Silver Tongue’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Shawn Donohue January 31, 2020 No Comments

The fourth full-length offering from Brooklyn based artist TORRES (aka Mackenzie Scott) is her first self-produced effort and as she states, it is “the exact record I wanted to make”.

Eric Brace & Last Train Home Make Compelling Return with ‘Daytime Highs & Overnight Lows (ALBUM REVIEW)

Jim Hynes January 31, 2020 No Comments

One of roots music’s best bands returns as leader Eric Brace rounds up his bandmates in Last Train Home for the band’s tenth, perhaps most fully realized album on Daytime

FUZZ (Ty Segall/Drums) Returns and Announces North American Tour

Glide January 30, 2020 No Comments

FUZZ, comprised of Ty Segall (drums, vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar, vocals), and Chad Ubovich (bass, vocals), announces a North American tour – their first since winter 2015. The band will bring their rowdy live shows across the states,

Nikki Glaspie Blends Nth Power and Ghost Note For a Fundraiser in Los Angeles (SHOW REVIEW)

Andy J. Gordon January 30, 2020 No Comments

The holiday spirit swept into the new decade as Nikki Glaspie put together an all-star cast for a memorable show on January 24, 2020, at The Mint in Los Angeles.

I Was There When: The Band Fell Flat At Saratoga Performing Arts Center (well, sort of…)

Doug Collette January 30, 2020 1 Comment

The Band’s appearance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center had the potential to be triumphant, if for no other reason than the venerable open-air venue, summer home of the Philadephia

‘The Music of Wayne Shorter by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis featuring Wayne Shorter’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Jim Hynes January 30, 2020 No Comments

The iconic 86-year-old Wayne Shorter is revered in the top echelon of jazz greats both as a player and composer. Wynton Marsalis, the Artistic and Managing Director said it succinctly,

Pioneering Jazz Trumpeter Dan Rosenboom Pushes the Boundaries on ‘Absurd in the Anthropocene’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Glide January 29, 2020 No Comments

It’s interesting to ponder on what kind of music Miles Davis would be making today if he were alive. Perhaps the latest effort, Absurd in the Anthropocene from widely hailed

Sons of Apollo Launch New Songs and Pay Tribute To Neil Peart in Los Angeles (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

Andy J. Gordon January 29, 2020 No Comments

It was a night of wild guitar heroics as prog-rock legends plus hard rock virtuoso guitarists performed at the legendary Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. On