Blast Furnace Blues Festival
Photos by Laura Carbone Eastern Pennsylvania’s devoted blues community showed up in enough force to make the sixth annual Blast Furnace Blues Festival a success, despite some horrific obstacles, … Read more
Live Show Reviews
Yo La Tengo Turned Itself Inside Out
Photos by Ebet Roberts Yo La Tengo spun one day of rehearsal with a bunch of relative strangers into spaced-out, sonic gold at And Then Yo La Tengo Turned Itself … Read more
“Beat the Blues to Save Lives” Charity Concert
Photos by Laura Carbone Well-known blues artists, art fans and supporters gathered at the second joint benefit for the SAVE and the Jed Foundations, two organizations with one goal: … Read more
Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden
Photos by Arnie Goodman By Barry Fisch The last of the two shows of this guitar jamboree at Madison Square Garden proved to be a delight to the sold … Read more
Exclusive: Stephane Wrembel at Carnegie Hall
Photos by Irene Ypenburg Gypsy jazz guitarist extraordinaire Stephane Wrembel assembled an all-star group of musicians including Al Di Meola, Stochelo Rosenberg, Larry Keel, David Gastine, Ryan Montbleau, Thor Jensen, … Read more
’70s Rock & Romance Cruise
Photos By Alisa B. Cherry By Lee Zimmerman “When we talk about surviving the ’70s, are we talking about the decade or a certain age?” That comment from John Hall, … Read more
Garth Brooks at the Broken Spoke
Photos by Donna Marie Miller After delivering a SXSW keynote at Austin’s convention center downtown, March 17 mega country artist Garth Brooks hinted about delivering a secret show in town. … Read more
Southern Avenue
Photos by Lou Montesano Nashville is known as “Music City,” but Memphis is Tennessee’s other home of musical heritage. The former has become a hub of songwriters and musicians who have … Read more
The Grahams
Photos by Brian Bongo Davis On the final night, closing a three week tour of the UK, Nashville-based New York duo Alyssa and Doug Graham turned in an excellent, … Read more
Tony McManus
Tony McManus is rightly rated as one Celtic music’s finest musicians, a guy who is grounded in the tradition and picks guitar like few others with an incomparable feel and … Read more
