In Praise of Stadium Shows: Metallica live at Gillette Stadium
by John D. Keegan | May 26, 2017 | All Stories, Featured, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
In Praise of Stadium Shows: Metallica live at Gillette Stadium Small venues have their charms, but stadium satisfaction is where it's at! Metallica at Gillette Stadium Foxborough, MA ~ May 19, 2017 I like everything about the fragrant dives and bleachy-clean mid-sized...Let’s Get Political: Todd Rundgren live @ The Wilbur Boston
by Brett Milano | May 25, 2017 | All Stories, Featured, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Let’s Get Political: Todd Rundgren live @ The Wilbur Boston Breitbart-types beware, Rundgren live leaves no room for "Liars". Lots of people who post on Facebook were apparently dead shocked two weeks ago, when Todd Rundgren suggested to an interviewer that...Reviewed: “The Decibel Diaries: A Journey Through Rock in 50 Concerts” by Carter Alan
by Tom Lawton | May 9, 2017 | All Stories, Book Reviews, Featured Reads, Popular Stories, Reads | 0 comments
Reviewed: “The Decibel Diaries: A Journey Through Rock in 50 Concerts” by Carter Alan A famous DJ's concert diary wings us to pivotal moments in rock and roll, but the typos kill our buzz. Carter Alan, a long-time Boston deejay, has chronicled nearly a...Reviewed: The Who live in Glasgow
by Tom Lawton | May 9, 2017 | All Stories, Featured, Music, Music Reviews, Popular Stories | 0 comments
Reviewed: The Who live in Glasgow With only 2 original members left, both in their 70s, can The Who put on a farewell show worth watching? The Who @ SSE Hydro Glasgow Scotland: April 7, 2017 We all have ‘em – that one friend who loves your favorite band almost as much...Reviewed: 10cc Live in Birmingham UK
by Ian Rushbury | Apr 28, 2017 | All Stories, Featured Music, Music, Music Reviews, Popular Stories | 0 comments
Reviewed: 10cc Live in Birmingham UK Prog-pop's Not Dead! The soft-rock sovereigns come out s(w)inging in Birmingham 10cc were up against it last night… they played in the cosy confines of 2600-seater Symphony Hall, while across the street, in the cavernous...Reviewed: The Cheap Cassettes “All Anxious, All The Time”
by Ian Rushbury | Apr 28, 2017 | All Stories, Featured Music, Music, Music Reviews, Popular Stories | 0 comments
Reviewed: The Cheap Cassettes “All Anxious, All The Time” Doffing their caps to The Dead Boys, The Real Kids, & early Blondie, we ask: "Is this the best cryogenically-frozen-and-reanimated band of 2017?" Cheap Cassettes – “All Anxious, All The Time”...White Buffalo, Black Lodge, and the best of the rest from SxSW 2017
by Scott VonDoviak | Apr 10, 2017 | All Stories, Life & Living, Lifestyle | 0 comments
White Buffalo, Black Lodge, and the best of the rest from SxSW 2017 Donuts, Handmaids, Veep, and lots of Twin Peaks. More, more, more things you missed at SxSW South by Southwest may have downsized since reaching critical mass a couple of years ago, but it’s not as if...LIVE: Blackberry Smoke: Birmingham Academy, Birmingham UK April 7th, 2017
by Ian Rushbury | Apr 10, 2017 | All Stories, Featured Music, Music, Music Reviews, Popular Stories | 1 comment
LIVE: Blackberry Smoke: Birmingham Academy, Birmingham UK April 7th, 2017 Wine, women, whiskey and a heapin helpin' of Allman Brothers worship BlackBerry Smoke: Birmingham Academy, Birmingham UK April 7th 2017 Hey Kids! Ever wished you could travel back in time to a...Play Ball! Rocking Baseball Songs for Opening Day
by Amy Prohaska | Apr 1, 2017 | All Stories, Music, Playlists | 1 comment
Play Ball! Rocking Baseball Songs for Opening Day Amy and official Red Sox Organist Josh Kantor pick 13 home run tunes! It must finally be spring because baseball season has officially started. Baseball is not just America’s pastime, it’s also very rock n roll....Vic Chestnutt & Sam Phillips: New Releases
by Tom Lawton | Apr 1, 2017 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews, Popular Stories | 0 comments
Vic Chestnutt & Sam Phillips: New Releases Sour on the singer-songwriter set? A pair of new releases bring the sweetness. Does the phrase ‘singer-songwriter’ conjure up visions of overly-sensitive, overly-prim young men sitting on steps yodeling about their...SxSW Films 2017: Five Pairs Face Off
by Scott VonDoviak | Apr 1, 2017 | All Stories, Featured Film & Tv, Film & TV, Film & TV Reviews, Popular Stories | 0 comments
SxSW Films 2017: Five Pairs Face Off Pairs of Fresh Rockumentaries, Documentaries, Film Noir, Women's Stories, and films about Aging Hollywood Icons face off in our SxSW movie roundup. Standing in line for my final screening of SXSW’s 2017 film program, it occurred to...