Jimmy Webb’s appearance at the reopened Cutting Room marked the club’s rebirth in its stunning new location, christened by one of its more illustrious performers. The Songwriter’s Hall of Famer … Read more
With chart topping hits like “Everybody Plays a Fool” and “Tell It Like It Is,” Grammy Award winner Aaron Neville continues to hold his place as the King of Louisiana. … Read more
Everything should have worked. The concept was innovative; social media savants winning tickets to secret concerts by tweeting, vineing and instagraming. The venue was Gotham Hall; a gothic and columned … Read more
With a career spanning four and a half decades, Payne had a lot of ground to cover, and he wasted no time in breaking into “A Thousand Nights,” representing his … Read more
Mt. Jam is a hometown favorite for me—it’s near my summer haunts and near where I ski in the winter. I have a soft spot for the event’s joint promoters, … Read more
The Mantles’ first album was a pleasant slice of fuzzy guitar pop, but listening to it a few years later, one gets the impression that the band didn’t seem to … Read more
As lead singer Josh Homme sings “The view from Hell is blue sky/so ominously blue,” in the first track of …Like Clockwork, you know that you’re on the express train … Read more
Born in 1980 in Boston, singer-songwriter Jesse Dee got hooked on R&B as a pre-teen while growing up in the Boston suburb of Arlington. Listening to his idols, Al Green … Read more
Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker has always had a more roots-leaning feel as a songwriter, something that isn’t especially evident in the handful of songs he has composed for the … Read more
Generation X and Generation Y are coming together like chromosomes for the re-birth of touring 80’s music video icon Billy Idol and Westchester’s revitalized Capitol Theatre was the perfect setting … Read more
