TOOL HYPNOTIZE NJ: ‘BE A LITTLE SELFISH & ENJOY THIS NIGHT’
It’s always fun to be around Tool’s cerebral and studious fan base, some of whom get even more talkative while they’re slamming pre-show beers…
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SCREAMING FEMALES & SHELLSHAG RIP IT UP AT SAINT VITUS
Screaming Females have come a long way since rising up through the New Jersey rock scene of the mid 00’s by playing mostly intimate…
IDLES SPUR EXUBERANT DANCING AT NYC’S T5
It’s incredibly fun to dance in a long-awaited fit of joy with fellow IDLES fans. The A.F. Gang has always cultivated loving mosher camaraderie…
MY MORNING JACKET & BRITTANY HOWARD STUN IN NEW YORK RUN
Have you ever tried to visualize how energy travels from the band to each individual fan in the live setting? Can you picture how…
LAKE STREET DIVE GET A SOLD-OUT CROWD SWAYING & DANCING AT SUMMERSTAGE
In full disclosure: first concert in 537 days (seriously), so every aspect was enthralling, right down to the bleep of the ticket scanner. What…
WIDOWSPEAK PLAYED THEIR FIRST POST-PANDEMIC SHOW WITH ONEIDA
The swooning songsters Widowspeak played their first post-pandemic show with a performance announced only a few days before. It all went down in the…
PAN ARCADIA ROCK OUT AT BOWERY ELECTRIC
I walked into The Bowery Electric last week for my first indoor concert since venues shut their doors almost 16 months ago. The sound…
SILVERSUN PICKUPS ROCK A SCREAMING BROOKLYN STEEL
Outside was windy, misty speed-walking weather. Inside was a heat wave of shared suspense for Silversun Pickups, who would soon finish their two-night run…
SILVERSTEIN TURNS BACK THE CLOCKS AT BOSTON’S HOUSE OF BLUES
It’s not very often that you feel the energy of a triple-billed concert buzzing from the moment the first band steps on stage, but…
THE BLACK LIPS GET CRAZY AT MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG
The Atlanta garage rockers Black Lips played to a packed Music Hall of Williamsburg in support of their ninth studio album Sing in a…