HOT ROCKS: New Releases from Gang of Four, Puss N’ Boots, Spice Girls, Bloodhound Gang, Ross the Boss Vinny Cecolini March 17, 2020 Albums, Reviews GANG OF FOUR / This Heaven Gives Me a Migraine / (Gill Music, Ltd.) It’s been barely two months since innovative, post-punk icon Andy Gill passed from a respiratory illness and we’re still mourning. That’s ...
The 33rd Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall/February 26, 2020 Everynight Charley Crespo March 17, 2020 Concerts, Reviews The Year of the Iron Mouse began with a musical bang at Carnegie Hall, when Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Margo Price, Sandra Oh, Bettye LaVette, Tenzin Choegyal, Matt Berninger, Phoebe Bridgers, the Resistance Reviv...
HOT ROCKS: New Releases from Ozzy Osbourne, Green Leaf Rustlers, … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Drive-by Truckers, Body Count, Outlaws Vinny Cecolini March 10, 2020 Albums, Reviews Ozzy Osbourne Ordinary Man (Epic Records) If this is Ozzy Osbourne’s final bow, then Ordinary Man is fitting farewell to a truly legendary career. Haunting, honest and introspective, not only is it th...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat: Bush Tetras, Skull Practitioners, British Lion, Skrizzly Adams Everynight Charley Crespo March 10, 2020 Concerts, Reviews Bush Tetras/le Poisson Rouge/February 21, 2020 Originally from Chicago, Pat Place relocated to New York City in 1975 to pursue a career as a visual artist. Falling in with the downtown music and art s...
Hot Rocks Arts Weekly March 3, 2020 Reviews PET SHOP BOYS Hotspot (x2) The Pet Shop Boys are quietly enjoying a Hall of Fame career. Who among the duo’s synth-pop, techno-pop, or new wave peers have been as consistent? Even Depeche Mode and Erasur...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat: Puss N’ Boots, Villins, Sonsombre, Sasha Dobson Everynight Charley Crespo March 3, 2020 Concerts, Reviews 1 Puss N Boots/The Bowery Ballroom/February 15, 2020 Norah Jones' debut album in 2002 wound up winning five Grammy Awards and selling 27 million units. She was a singer/songwriter known for playing piano, but...
HOT ROCKS: New Releases from the Pet Shop Boys, Guided by Voices, Posehn, Demons & Wizards, and Tombs Arts Weekly March 2, 2020 Albums, Reviews PET SHOP BOYS Hotspot (x2) The Pet Shop Boys are quietly enjoying a Hall of Fame career. Who among the duo’s synth-pop, techno-pop, or new wave peers have been as consistent? Even Depeche Mode and Era...
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/22/20 Dan Alleva March 2, 2020 Concerts, Reviews Joe Russo’s Almost Dead—or JRAD as they are affectionately known—kicked of 2020 with a bang, playing three consecutive sold-out nights at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. The supergroup that came toget...
The Exile Follies, 2/6/20, The Cutting Room, New York City Katherine Yeske Taylor February 24, 2020 Concerts, Reviews At first, the Exile Follies lineup doesn’t seem like it should work: Kristin Hersh (main songwriter for indie rock darlings Throwing Muses), Grant-Lee Phillips (ex-front man of Americana pioneers Grant Lee Buf...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat: Ween, The Used, Michigan Rattlers, Spencer Ludwig Everynight Charley Crespo February 24, 2020 Concerts, Reviews Ween/Terminal 5/February 14, 2020 Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in 1984 in a junior high school typing class in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Discovering a compatible interest in music, the duo formed W...
