Live Show Reviews

Northside, Take Two

My North Brooklyn musical weekend started off on Thursday night with a heavy wave of nostalgia, listening through McCarren Park’s chain link fence as Wolf Parade played songs from 2005’s … Read more

Northside Festival

Diarrhea Planet Tennessee might have gotten Bonnaroo last weekend, but we had Diarrhea Planet. The Nashville party punk band that was “supposed to be a joke college band that people … Read more

La Luz

La Luz’s concert at the Subterranean was full of surprises. Audience members witnessed the positive attitude the surf rock band from Seattle maintained despite an accidental fire drill going off just … Read more

John Prine

In 2009, Bob Dylan characterized John Prine’s songwriting as “pure Proustian Existentialism…”  By this I believe he meant that Prine’s songs reflect memories of an authentic life, one in which … Read more

William Bell & Catherine Russell

Photos by Arnie Goodman William Bell, who wrote “Born Under a Bad Sign” with Booker T. Jones (a tune first recorded by Albert King and made legend by Eric Clapton … Read more

Tampa Bay Blues Festival

Photos by Laura Carbone Set in the smaller and pretty city of St. Petersburg, the destination-event Tampa Bay Blues Festival has been bringing top talent to the shores of West … Read more

Steve Conte and Blues Deluxe

Photos by Carl Scheffel If Rod Stewart were Italian, he’d probably look a lot like Steve Conte, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the UK rocker. Conte and his … Read more

The Governors Ball Music Festival

When parsing the hulking Cerberus that is the Music Festival- with new heads sprouting daily to varying degrees of success- perhaps it’s worth considering the way that individual festivals act … Read more

The Monkees

Photos by Henry Diltz At the ripe age of twenty-four, I fully expected to be the youngest person at the Monkees concert this past Wednesday and I would’ve gotten away … Read more