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Paul McCartney Entertains Generations During the Got Back Tour
It took fifty years for Paul McCartney to make his first stop in Western, NY, when he performed to a sold-out crowd back in 2015. ... -
Rico Nasty Gets Gnarly at the Fonda
Eighty percent of the best new rappers of the last decade have been female. After years and years of misogyny in the music industry that, ... -
Paul McCartney Brings Timeless Magic to Atlanta
Rock icon Paul McCartney brought his Got Back Tour to Atlanta’s State Farm Arena this past Sunday, transforming the venue into a vibrant celebration of ... -
Staying Above Ground at the Fonda
When Billy Morrison (The Cult, etc) and Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction, etc) started doing the Above Ground concerts, initially at the Belasco, we were still ... -
Devo and the B-52's Light Up the Hollywood Bowl
As bills go, the combination of new wave icons Devo and The B-52's is an inspired one. Sure, they're both from a similar era, but ... -
Dream Theater Brings A Change of Seasons to Syracuse
Dream Theater continued their 40th anniversary celebration by expanding the second leg of their North American tour to include performances of both Parasomnia, their latest ... -
Lady Blackbird at the Blue Note, Los Angeles
Long before the 2020 release of her hypnotic, visceral jazz-soul re-imagining of Nina Simone’s 1966 song “Blackbird” coincided with the Black Lives Matter movement and ... -
Rocky Horror Recap at the GRAMMY Museum, Los Angeles, CA
September 26th, 1975 the film world was forever changed with the release of Rocky Horror Picture Show. 50 years later, this global phenomenon can still ... -
Two shots of Whisky with Vader and Rough Cutt
The good people at the Whisky A Go-Go can always be relied on to provide from great, nostalgia-inducing hard rock and metal. They still host ... -
L7 and Lunachicks Party at the Belasco
Photo credit: C. Elliot Photography Over the years, L.A. band L7 has been tagged riot grrl, grunge, alt-rock, and a bunch of other sub-genres that ... -
The Waterboys Shimmer at The Bellwether
Mike Scott, main man with British/Irish folky rockers The Waterboys, may be one of the most underrated songwriters on the planet. Like a Scottish Marshall ... -
Thousands Make the Pilgrimage
Pictured top: Grace Potter The bright shining sun seemed a bit too good to be true. At Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival in Franklin, Tennessee, ... -
Circle Jerks Beat Hollywood Senseless on Keith Morris' Birthday
If there's a golden rule when it comes to Los Angeles punk rock, it's this: When you have the opportunity to see Keith Morris on ... -
Moon Safari Blows Fresh Air on the Hollywood Bowl
When Air's Moon Safari was released in 1998, it really cemented the fact that some of the most exciting electronic music in the world was ... -
Fantastic Negrito at the Blue Note Los Angeles
Exactly a month after the global Blue Note Jazz Club brand finally opened its doors in Los Angeles, the three-time Grammy winning force of musical ... -
Lil Wayne at the Crypto.com Arena
Lil Wayne stepped onto the stage at the Crypto Arena in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, September 12th, kicking off his tour named after his ... -
CELEBRATING THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ALAN BERGMAN AT THE BROAD STAGE
Pictured: Lilias White It was fitting that legendary film composer, Dave Grusin performed an impromptu, improvised solo piano rendition of “Happy Birthday” in the middle ... -
Chicago Lights Up the Hollywood Bowl
Every year, this writer looks at the Hollywood Bowl's events calendar, spots the "fireworks finale," and somehow ends up not going. It always looks like ... -
SMOOTH SUMMER JAZZ AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, CA
As a music journalist who has made the melodic, urban driven sounds of the genre/format known as Smooth Jazz a centerpiece of his work for ... -
The Goo Goo Dolls at the Greek Theater, Los Angeles, CA
The Goo Goo Dolls are just two years away from the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, and of the original lineup, John Rzeznik ...
