The sort of plasmic, shape-shifting rock and roll spawned by The Southern Belles of Richmond, VA, has been released to humans everywhere for their listening and dancing pleasure on August 5. Their third album, In the Middle of the Night, is oddly akin to Willie Wonka’s three course dinner chewing gum, in that, through the consumption […]
Rock
Thanks be to God for Alabama Shakes in Albany
Thousands gathered to listen to a preacher give thanks. Her boisterous voice echoed throughout the golden walls, as painted angels peered down from the ceiling. She removed her glasses to wipe the sweat from her brow and then threw her hands to the sky as she sang to the heavens in gratitude and desperation. Brittany […]
Mountain Jamming: 2017 Peach Music Festival Preview
It is not unusual in this day and age for a band to have it’s own festival. It is however, unusual, for a band’s festival to outlast the band itself. The Peach Music Festival, this year running August 10-13, was started by the Allman Brothers Band back in 2012. The band broke up for good […]
Phish Layers the Garden with Jimmies
On the second Sunday of the outstanding Baker’s Dozen run at Madison Square Garden, Phish once again left its mark in the building and reminded us why we should never miss a Sunday show. When they opened with the classic, “The Curtain With,” the audience knew that they were in for an extra tasty treat. […]
Hearing Aide: SkyDaddy ‘Wide Eyes’
Two years succeeding their debut, self-titled EP as a funky musical quartet, SkyDaddy makes a comeback with their latest EP Wide Eyes, due out on all digital platforms come August 1. Dave Heinz (bass/vox), Joe North (saxophone/EWI), Tom Claney (guitar/vox) and Pat Agresta (drums) fit together as a jazzy-funk ensemble with nods of soul and […]
Hearing Aide: Haakon’s Fault ‘Waning Gibbous’
New York City based progressive rock band, Haakon’s Fault, has recently released their brand-new EP, Waning Gibbous. Despite the four-track project’s shortness, the band’s style and skill level is well showcased, combining elements of both wailing and grunge guitar offset by the entrance of a clean vocal by lead vocalist, Harry McNamara. The EP’s opening self-titled […]
Photo Gallery: 50 Years of Chicago Visits SPAC
Celebrating their 50th year as a band, Chicago rolled into Saratoga Performing Arts Center on July 25, 2017 to co-headline with The Doobie Brothers as part of their North American summer tour which started on June 7 in Concord, C.A. and will wrap up a 30-plus date tour on July 30 in Virginia Beach.
String Cheese Incident Announces Thanksgiving and New Years Eve Runs
The String Cheese Incident is known to shake things up with its tours. This is not the type of band to have an East-Coast, West-Coast, and Mid-West tour, evenly spaced throughout the year. This year alone they’ve played in Mexico with Dead and Company, Los Muertos Con Queso (Get it?), played a string of Mid-West intimate […]
Phish Puts the Power in Powder
On Wednesday July 26 at Madison Square Garden, Phish devised a plan to make hump day a great day. Keeping in form with the powdered donut theme, the foursome launched into an acappella version of Fleet Foxes’ “White Winter Hymnal” to get the party started. The “white snow red as strawberries” lyric reprised the Saturday […]
Photo Gallery: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Celebrate 40 Years at Air Canada Centre in Toronto
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers made a stop on their 40th anniversary tour at the Air Canada Center on July 15. The veteran rockers played to a sold-out crowd of over 19,000. The band played mostly hits, but dropped in an occasional B-side or rare track. They kicked off their set by going way back […]