Live On Stage 2013

All this overflow of super-positive emotions, all these uplifting oo-ooos, all these power choruses on ecstasy, all this jumping around could have either turned me nauseous or totally happy,…

The band will earmark proceeds from this show Teen Cancer America and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The band will put aside its current set list of the entire soundtrack of Quadrophenia and replace it with an array of Who tunes you wished you had heard

Their music is a world by itself, a foreign country populated by a dark and mysterious sound built around a blend of punk, industrial sound, krautrock, surf guitars and even tribal screams. It’s quite a dense universe, exotic and expansive, with rare but powerful vocals

Someone told me she hadn’t been able to get a ticket months in advance, so these double dates were super hot tickets in town! Local Natives, I hardly know you, what exactly all these kids do know that I don’t?

Abrams got a brush with fame by finishing in sixth place during the tenth season of American Idol, and by even doing a duo with Jack Black for the 2011 American Idol finale,… and this could totally explain why he was opening for Kyle Gass

Obviously, these guys’ first priority is to have fun with their rock-extravanganza, going all over the classic rock experience …I don’t even know exactly if they have songs of their own (I guess they do), but they totally made anything they played their own stuff.

Snatching their name from Wendy O’ Williams and the Plasmatics famous tune, these two girls have been opening up for Marilyn Manson on his latest tour. A soft gig for these LA strip girls

The problem with this is I ended up with an ass kicking case of the flu, but there was no way I would let the opportunity to review a Manson show pass so I rallied up my crew and sent them out to cover it for me. I can tell by this excellent video that I didn’t miss much.

Sincerely, I am not a fan of her style of music, a mix of 90s R&B, 80s soul, light disco, turning into mellow ballads à la Sade with some occasional sampling, but I must admit Jessie had quite a warm and unassuming personality, smiling and waving at people

At age 53 Morrissey is the picture of aging with sex appeal Taught, tanned and without the previously noted “old man pants’ he owned the stage at Port Chester New York’s, Capitol Theater and he owned every person in that room

Is there any musical genre that Ozomatli, the multi-cultural band from Los Angeles, can’t do? Is there any instrument they can’t play on stage? Those who have seen them certainly know the answers to these questions,… Ozomatli isn’t the LA ambassador for nothing!

Lacking familiarity with the Spanish-language tracks, I didn’t connect with most of the songs on a lyrical level. However, the musicianship was so impressive that the group easily made a gut level, visceral connection with the audience.

The first thing I noticed with them was their restrained decibel level, I know too well how so many bands feel the necessity to play as loud as possible, as if it was a requirement to sound cool. But there wasn’t anything like this during Yo La Tengo’s set

Eight slow tempo sad songs about women in abusive relationships, women in suffocating relationships, or women trapped in their own loneliness can take its toll on a person. Lucinda Williams is unarguably one of the preeminent songwriters of this era

Buried inside the layers of reverb and psych-fuzz, the songs certainly had hooks and even 60s harmonies, à la Brian Jonestown Massacre (this is actually the first name I wrote when I heard the first song) or could it have been The Jesus and Mary Chain?

I was ready for depression and a drug-induced coma, but all this was making the songs really difficult to differentiate from each other. Then, they let a little bit of light enter their darkness, oh I am not talking about light and upbeat, but at least ‘Zombies like Lovers’ had a faster tempo

Whenever a band plays a new song not everyone has heard, it is sort of an awkward experience between musicians and the crowd. Brown wasted no time to break the tension and interacted with them between breaks in verses