My Morning Jacket made their return to New York City for a two-night run at Forest Hills Stadium that showcased inspired performances from one of the best live bands of our generation in the midst of one of the most transformational moments of their career. With The Waterfall II released months into the pandemic and […]
The weather at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, stationed at the foot of the Rockies, can be temperamental at times. On July 3, a clap of thunder and light rain accompanied those who’d lined up outside the venue’s gates in a bid to snag the first few rows. On any other occasion, pre-show precipitation would be cause […]
Practically every single belief structure since the beginning of recorded history highlights a duality, or figure-ground, of Darkness and Light. Heaven and Hell; Creation and Destruction; Chaos and Order; Yin and Yang. One cannot exist without another, plus it requires a measured, balanced abundance of the two to create a complete, or even gestalt. In […]
Images by: Jeremy Williams Sixty million years ago, colliding tectonic plates thrust ancestral layers of Precambrian and Paleozoic stone to the heavens. Millennia later, the Ute people stumbled upon a bright red bowl of acoustic splendor, perfect for ritual and celebration. And from the moment that entrepreneur John Brisben Walker built the first wooden stage […]
“It feels weird to still be doing this,” guitarist Alan Sparhawk softly quipped into the mic as he tuned his guitar between songs. Those were the first words spoken since they’d begun playing over an hour earlier, and the laughter emanating from the crowd marked the first discernible noise outside of the music that night. […]
Words & Images by: Tyler Hypnarowski BIG Something & Aqueous :: 2.17.19 Cervantes :: Denver, CO Wrapping up a five-show Colorado run that took them through various mountain towns and featured a show at the famed Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Big Something and Aqueous treated a hearty audience at Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom to nearly […]
Words by: Aaron Stein Medeski Martin & Wood with Alarm Will Sound 01.09.18:: Brooklyn Steel:: New York City All terrific live bands need to have a elasticity, the capacity to adjust to the space, the crowd, to each other. Perhaps no group of the last 3 years is much more limber in such a way […]
Words & Images by: Andrew Bruss Turkuaz:12.31.18:The Palladium Worcester, MA Turkuaz brought 2018 into a close before a yearlong audience west of Boston using a set of opening acts that that took time gaining speed but kept its foot on the gas well into the new year. The nine-person outfit erupts in 2016 opening for […]
Images by: Adam McCullough Words by: Aaron Stein Anders Osborne:12.07.18:: Brooklyn Bowl:NYC Check out Adam’s gallery from Saturday’s show after the watch. I’m convinced in all the years that Anders Osborne has been coming up to play New York City, surely a lot of shows to count, and ” he ’s played with a gig […]
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