Manhattan Beat – Nightwish, Jack White, & More!
Nightwish/The PlayStation Theater/March 14, 2018
Based in Kitee, Finland, Tuomas Holopainen in the 1990s had played keyboards in several heavy metal bands, including Nattvindens Gråt, Perk...
Manhattan Beat – Love Rocks NYC Recap
The second annual LOVE ROCKS NYC! benefit concert for God's Love We Deliver hosted live performances by the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, ZZ...
Manhattan Beat – Crowder, A Day To Remember & More
Crowder/B.B. King Blues Club & Grill/March 5, 2018
David Crowder was born and raised in Texarkana, Texas, then moved 222 miles to Waco for college in the mid-1990s. Learning that half of the ...
Manhattan Beat – Reviewing The Music of Led Zeppelin & The Tibet House Benefit
The Music of Led Zeppelin: Live Rehearsal Show
City Winery
March 6, 2018
Entrepreneur Michael Dorf has been an integral fixture of the New York City music scene for over 30 years, beginning at the Kni...
Manhattan Beat – Uriah Heep, The Zombies, & More
Uriah Heep/The Gramercy Theatre/Feb. 22, 2018
In 1967, 19-year-old guitarist Mick Box formed a band called Hogwash in Brentwood, England. When the singer left, some of the band members formed a new gr...
Manhattan Beat – First Aid Kit, Robert Plant, & More!
First Aid Kit/The Beacon Theatre/Feb. 13, 2018
In Enskede, Sweden, Klara Söderberg wrote her first song in 1999 when she was six years old. At age 12, she received a guitar as a Christmas pr...
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Mary Gauthier/City Vineyard/Feb. 7, 2018
Mary Gauthier was born to a mother she never knew in New Orleans, and adopted when she was a year old by a couple from Thibodaux, La. At age 15, sh...
Manhattan Beat – Black Label Society, The Wood Brothers, & More
Black Label Society/The PlayStation Theater/Jan. 31, 2018
Born in Bayonne, NJ, Jeffrey Phillip Wielandt started playing the guitar at the age of eight. While in high school in Jackson, NJ, h...
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The World of Captain Beefheart/City Winery/Jan. 22, 2018
Living in Syracuse, NY, a nine-year-old Gary Lucas was encouraged by his father to learn to play the guitar at the age of nine. This ...
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The Killers/Madison Square Garden/Jan. 12, 2018
Vocalist/keyboardist Brandon Flowers was fired by his first band, a synth-pop trio known as Blush Response, in 2001 in Las Vegas. After atte...
