Halestorm: “Vicious” (Atlantic) Debra Kate Schafer August 8, 2018 Albums, Reviews Vicious is Halestorm’s fourth studio album, and trying to follow up an album that stemmed four Top 10 hits in the mainstream rock category is difficult to say the least. As expected, though, the hard roc...
Warped Tour: The Final Review Kevin Miller August 1, 2018 Concerts, Reviews For me, it all started in 2003 on a hot summer day, dragging my dad and a good friend out to Asbury Park, NJ. Not fully knowing what to expect (never being to a festival before), but over...
Inside Montreal Jazz Fest 2018 Bryan Reesman July 25, 2018 Concerts, Reviews " order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500"] If you’re a music lover whose tastes span jazz, blues, hip-hop, rock, folk, world music, and beyond, you sho...
Dirty Projectors: “Lamp Lit Prose” (Domino Recording Company) Debra Kate Schafer July 25, 2018 Albums, Reviews Brooklyn, NY is home to one of the coolest and subtly edgy groups I have ever known. Dirty Projectors have been releasing music since 2002 and I have to say, over 15 years later, they still have the cool...
A2IM Indie Week 2018 Everynight Charley Crespo July 18, 2018 Concerts, Reviews Just a generation ago, music artists longed to be signed by a major record company and young business hopefuls lobbied to get a job with a major record label, management team or music pub...
Florence and the Machine: “High as Hope” (Virgin EMI) Debra Kate Schafer July 18, 2018 Albums, Reviews If I could describe Florence and the Machine’s latest album, High as Hope, in one word, it would be goosebumps. I was merely 45 seconds into the first song and I had goosebumps up and down my arms. The l...
Nine Inch Nails: “Bad Witch” (The Null Corporation) Debra Kate Schafer July 4, 2018 Albums, Reviews A Nine Inch Nails album, partially inspired by David Bowie. As if 2018 couldn’t get any weirder, that happened. Last week, NIN released a 30-minute long, six-track record entitled Bad Witch, which has st...
Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters – Glyn Emmerson July 4, 2018 Concerts, Reviews 2 June 13, 2018 Forest Hills Stadium Forest Hills, NY Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters put on an incredible performance at the old Forest Hills Tennis Stadium that hosted the Beatles, H...
Bebe Rexha: “Expectations” (Warner Bros. Records) Melanie Wedemeier July 4, 2018 Albums, Reviews Bebe Rexha’s debut album is good, to say the least, but what’s even better is the array of genres Rexha plays with on Expectations. Featuring artists from rap, contemporary R&B, and country -- fused ...
Dead and Company – Citi Field: June 16, 2018 Glyn Emmerson July 4, 2018 Concerts, Reviews June 16, 2018 Citi Field Queens, NY Dead and Company returned to Citi Field with an 18-song performance of two sets in yet another rite of passage to summer. Starting off slowly and finding the groo...
