NEW YORK, NY—Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros is a pseudo-1960s revival band with a somewhat varying line-up (at this show there were nine on stage), fronted by Alex of Ima Robot. In fact, Edward Sharpe is the musical opposite of Ima Robot, in style, subject matter, and presence/absence of…

SAYREVILLE, NJ—River Runs Red from Life Of Agony came out in 1993, when hair metal was on the way out when grunge was slowly infesting the metal scene. However there were some bands that were dominating the underground scene that didn’t fall in either of those categories. White Zombie, Pantera,…

NEW YORK, NY—A brisk and damp Friday night on Manhattan’s East 23rd Street saw a collection of die-hard industrial music fans gather outside the Gramercy Theater to worship one of the earliest and most eccentric pioneers in the style, the English band, Nitzer Ebb, on tour to promote their new…

NEW YORK, NY—Back in 2004 Phish did the unthinkable and broke up leaving thousands of fans inconsolable and unsure.  Five years passed, and in 2009, Phish did the unthinkable again and reunited, released a new album, and toured the country.  They stopped in NYC on Dec. 2, covering Madison Square…

NEW YORK, NY—The hue of Fela! is deep black. The Eugene O’Neill Theater is festooned with African artifact, made out to be a club, The Shrine, in Lagos, Nigeria. The band, Brooklyn Afrobeat masters Antibalas, is already playing as you take your seat. The groove is delicious: Deep funk and…

NEW YORK, NY—While arguing whether or not leprechauns are British, Irish or both, I also wondered where lead singer of British punk rock group Gallows had disappeared to. As the only openers for AFI’s current tour in support of new album, Crash Love, I bet the pressure was on to…

NEW YORK, NY—The classic track “Heroin” was played in its entirety as the audience sat in darkness, while waiting for the evening’s guests to take the stage. Inside the Stephen A. Schwartzman Building at the New York Public Library, there sat a tiny turntable—the needle blazing into the beginning of…

NEW YORK, NY—Any time a respected, formerly dissolved band reunites to play old favorites, there are always going to be people who ascribe shallow motivations to that band, gripe about the pricy concert tickets and point out the lack of new releases.

I’m sure that was the case when the…

ASBURY PARK, NJ—It’s as close to San Francisco that Asbury Park will ever get. Ashbury Park? Too easy.

For Deadheads, the world is divided into two eras: Before and After Jerry. The Grateful Dead was a sociological phenomenon as much as a band, and with Garcia’s death in 1995, a…