Premiere: Bill Toms and Hard Rain
Pittsburgh native Bill Toms and his band Hard Rain deliver America’s most beloved genres and meld them into a poetic stories of everyday men and women doing their best to … Read more
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Goodbye…Charles Bradley
Charles Bradley, master of soul, began as a James Brown impersonater and came to his own fame late in life, but music cognoscenti embraced him fully and he embraced his … Read more
Ten Years After
Ten Years After Photos by Arnie Goodman (at B.B. King’s Blues Club, NYC) Fifty years on, Ten Years After is a long way from a greatest-hits nostalgia act. Okay, that … Read more
Big Blues Bender – It’s Vegas Baby!
Photos by Laura Carbone It’s Vegas Baby! What better place than to go on a Bender of Blues than in the florescent city that never sleeps? Once home of Liberace, … Read more
Nothin’ like the blues
Jimmy Vivino, the man responsible for any number of great bands over the years—Fab Faux, (Conan O’Brien’s) Basic Cable Band, Prisoners of Second Avenue, the Black Italians and the Levon … Read more
Exclusive: Texan Hayes Carll donates proceeds to Harvey victims
Following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX and the surrounding region, Texan Hayes Carll has announced that he will donate all net proceeds from his September 16 headline show at Bowery … Read more
Max Gomez: Full plate, forks a-plenty
Max Gomez learned to sing listening to Johnny Cash, and as a teenager adopted Big Bill Broonzy as his blues master. In his hometown of Taos, New Mexico—situated between Colorado … Read more
Chris Pierce, on recording at Muscle Shoals
Singer Chris Pierce traveled to Muscle Shoals to record You’ve Got To Feel It!, an album of classic soul songs, accompanied by many of the original artists. He found it … Read more
Trois-Riviѐres Festival overflows with talent
Photos by Laura Carbone At a true festival, live music takes over an entire city. The small city of Trois-Riviѐres, in northeast Canada, celebrated their ninth anniversary, and the … Read more
Depeche Mode
Photos by Ehud Lazin Depeche Mode presented their Global Spirit Tour Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, the first of two sold out nights. It’s been almost three years to … Read more
