THE JOY OF GETTING BRUISED UP WITH IDLES & BAMBARA IN BROOKLYN
It’s amazing that a band could have you strolling through a gallery of open-minded art and submerged in a whirlpool of sharp bones and…
Live music review
BECK ADDS SPECIAL STORIES & GUESTS TO EXCITING MSG SHOW
“I get a lot of formal requests. Would it be possible for us tonight to coordinate our schedules? If I send a fax over…
FOO FIGHTERS ROCK ‘GILLIGAN’S ISLAND/ALCATRAZ’ AKA JONES BEACH
The scene outside Jones Beach Theater before Foo Fighters on Saturday was one that sticks in your memory; mellow concertgoers decorating the parking lots…
RADIOHEAD DIVE INTO SOLD-OUT MSG RUN WITH ABSORBING 1ST SHOW
Like bees on sweet flowers, Radiohead’s fans swarmed Madison Square Garden zealously before their Tuesday night show in NYC – the first of the…
U2 BRING SUPERCHARGED SHOW & SYMBOLS OF PEACE TO PRU CENTER
“God bless America. Thank you for letting us in. We Irish boys are so grateful,” Bono said during U2’s Friday concert in Newark, NJ,…
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD KICK OFF KILLER BROOKLYN STEEL RUN
It was too many good feelings to make sense of until later; contagious adrenaline whipping a mass of muscles into motion as gooey progressions,…
PRIMUS AND MASTODON SHRED IN CO-HEADLINING SHOW AT CONEY ISLAND
It wasn’t some strange hallucination; the distinctive sound of Les Claypool’s bass was drifting down the Coney Island boardwalk, several hours before the real…
JIM JAMES UNVEILS NEW RECORD IN FULL AT SURPRISE ROUGH TRADE SHOW
You don’t realize how often you check the clock until your phone is locked away in an impenetrable case. But aside from the funny…
RIVAL SONS AND WELLES FILL WHITE EAGLE HALL WITH INTOXICATING ROCK
The wait between scanning your tickets and screaming can seem endless before a good rock show, but sometimes, the reward is even better than…
ALICE IN CHAINS AND WALKING PAPERS HYPNOTIZE HAMMERSTEIN BALLROOM
In the thick of it, the full-body effect really was like some kind of hypnosis. During the satisfying night-two performance from Alice In Chains…