Mudvayne @ CBGB’s
Factor into the equation that the first time I saw Mudvayne perform, it was July 2000, and the members were sporting painted faces (but not black metal corpse paint) at the height of the Slipknot copycat craze,... Read More...
Various Artists: Global Underground: After Hours
This two disc set is a marathon of moodiness that will brig you home and slump you back into your seat in such a way that you may never want to leave your house again let alone go back out into the club. Now wh... Read More...
The Polyphonic Spree @ Warsaw
It was a night of choral thunder and sanctimonious boom where the band’s sonic swirls, bombastic pop and bouncy beats sucked the bad karma out of the room like a meeting with the Dalai Lama. The Polyphonic Spre... Read More...
Omarion: O
B2K was pretty whack if you are an adult urban fan.That’s just the way it is. If you’re a preteen or a teen or were so when the shit was hot you might disagree but whatever, the shit was whack to these ears bec... Read More...
Entombed @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Tours come and tours go. Great shows last forever in the memories of those lucky enough to have seen them.
Entombed, among the forefathers of the original Swedish death metal sound, met with Crowbar, the kin... Read More...
Ani DiFranco: Knuckle Down
This is a different ADF record because home girl finally lets someone else in on the production side of the album and it shows. Fellow musician Joe Henry comes through and earns his keep by shifting things arou... Read More...
Miles Davis: Tribute to Jack Johnson
There’s something in the swagger of Miles Davis’ playing on these recordings that reminds me of a boxer walking down the aisle. There’s the limit of the people crowded all around the runway, the chaos of that m... Read More...
Thursday @ Starland Balllroom
SAYREVILLE, NJ—I juggled my vacation plans in order to catch both post-Christmas Thursday shows at the Starland Ballroom because I knew that this would be the last time the beloved New Brunswick band would be p... Read More...
Emok @ Knitting Factory NYC
What first caught my eye about the ground-level room of the Knitting Factory was the floor. At some point between the smoking ban and now, it has been replaced and it was so clean yuppies in expensive driving c... Read More...
Gibby Haynes: Gibby Haynes and His Problem
Warm summer, top down, driving off to nowhere low-edge rock music with all the outlandish and absurd lyrics you would expect from the former Butthole Surfers frontman's solo debut. Stripped down production, lig... Read More...
