This show was the first of a three night run to close out the Grateful Dead's 1990 Summer Tour. The band was on a stellar, multi-year tear that began with the Spring East Coast Tour in 1987 but really found its legs throughout 1989...
Two weeks after its release, Grapes Upon The Vine might be my favorite TV Girl album. [RECORD SCRATCH] You might be wondering how I got here.
This show took place during the era when hip hop shows had a reputation (and oftentimes reality) of being hit or miss affairs, with late artists, middling sound, stage full of posse (out numbering band members)...off-kilter, chaotic and unpredictable. On a good night, exciting.
For the Furthur ‘98 concert in Saratoga on July 4, 1998, the band was called “The Other Ones” and was co-led by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh.
Release Radar has been one of my favourite sources for finding new music over the last few years.
Gorillaz' The Fall is a full-length album recorded in a month, on an iPad, during the band's Escape To Plastic Beach Tour. If that sounds like a good 45 minutes to you, you might also dig this post.
Once upon a time, a wicked and wretched people were smitten with a catastrophe - potentially of their own making - which ground their world to a halt...
When the Rolling Stones announced their Zip Code tour on March 31, 2015 it was to be their first stadium tour of North America since 2007.
The chance to see Tori Amos live presented itself in mid-1994 at the Palace Theatre, in New Haven, Connecticut. She was on a ridiculously long tour for her follow-up to Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink.
The Battle Over One of Cinema’s Most Admired Scores
“What was your first concert?” Whenever I hear people answer that question, I typically witness either embarrassment or pride. I feel neither when I answer the question but I will say that I have never met someone with the same answer as me...