live shows Archive
12 Sep 2013
Hopscotch Festival Part 3: The Breeders and John Cale
Saturday was the third and final night of Hopscotch 2013, and our second night. Equipped with a more realistic game plan, we ventured forth with plans to take in a […]
11 Sep 2013
Hopscotch Festival Part 2: Rose Windows
Maybe it’s something to do with the soggy Pacific Northwest climate, but there have been a number of bands coming out of the region who play a sort of tribal-psych […]
10 Sep 2013
Hopscotch Festival Part 1: Brett Harris, Mikal Cronin
“Best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray,” wrote Robert Burns (and not, as I had thought, Shakespeare, though he wrote pretty much every other quotable quote). My significant […]
09 Sep 2013
Album Review: Jefferson Starship — Live in Central Park NYC May 12,1975
In the annals of rock history, Jefferson Starship are often dismissed. And truth be told, there’s an argument to be made there: the band (or one of its myriad lineups) […]
06 Sep 2013
Festival Preview: Hopscotch 2013
Today I’m headed on a road trip to Raleigh, NC for my second Hopscotch Festival. As with last year, I plan on taking in shows by a variety of undiscovered, […]
26 Aug 2013
Iggy in ’80
It was 1980. I was all of sixteen, and enrolled in a private high school that had only gone co-ed the year before I started 9th grade. I lived in […]
09 Aug 2013
Dig the DIG Festival: August 15-16
Asheville, North Carolina is host to more festivals than one might expect of a city its size. This cultural magnet nestled among the Blue Ridge Mountains in the Western part […]
05 Jul 2013
Pygmies, Green Bullets, and Shitty Amps: Getting Loopy with Randall Bramblett
Randall Bramblett began his professional musical career in the 1970s. Working solo and then as a member of Sea Level, Bramblett crafted songs that synthesized a long list of American […]
27 May 2013
Opeth: Mixing Metal and Melodicism
Initially a Swedish death metal band, Opeth has since its 1990 inception in Stockholm expanded both its sound and its appeal. While the band was an exemplar of the hard-edged […]
10 May 2013
Album Review: Greg Lake — Songs of a Lifetime
It’s been about a year since I made the trip to Durham NC to see Greg Lake in concert. In the run-up to that performance, I interviewed Greg, and while […]