Reviews

Real Estate at White Eagle Music Hall

Who says you can’t go home again? At Real Estate’s show at White Eagle Music Hall, a New Jersey crowd patiently awaited the hometown band they know and love. When Real Estate … Read more

Gordon Lightfoot at Sony Hall

Photos: Debra L. Rothenberg He may be pushing 80, but Gordon Lightfoot still keeps audiences at the edge of their seats and laughing at his wit, as he did recently at Sony … Read more

Gin Blossoms

  “Maturity” is such a dirty word in rock ‘n’ roll. It doesn’t seem like an obscenity, though, when thrown around in any in-depth discussion of the songwriting craftsmanship and … Read more

Russ Green

Russ Green sounds like anything but a recording rookie on this debut effort. The harmonicist/vocalist from Chicago penned all ten originals, backed by select group of the city’s best session … Read more

Steve Dawson

Chamber blues? Rapid-fire folk? The guitar and strings music within this Lucky Hand could be described several ways. In the hands of Vancouver, British Columbia’s Steve Dawson and his friends, … Read more

Byron Isaacs

Romantic obsession turns dark in the brooding “Losing You” and the troubling, yet seductive, “Crazy Love” from Byron Isaacs’ absorbing debut solo album Disappearing Man. Coming from a founding member … Read more

Webb Wilder & The Beatnecks

It actually did come from Nashville, this Powerful Stuff! That’s a reference, of course, to the much-revered 1986 Webb Wilder album touted by many as a seminal Southern rock tour … Read more

Roots of Creation

Instead of scrawling a barely coherent mash note on wrinkled rolling papers to an iconic band they truly worship, Roots of Creation fashions a joyous, blissful love letter to the … Read more