The road from Nashville to Los Angeles is a long one, but I’m sure it’s going to be one familiar to Briston Maroney in the near future. The 21 year-old headlined his first shows in Southern California last month to a response that was nothing short of explosive. We spent …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: LA Guns at Apollo Theatre AC in Belvidere, Illinois 10-31-19
I don’t strive to start a recap of a show with a gripe, but LA Guns have brought this on themselves. It started earlier in 2019, when the band saw fit to release one of the best, catchiest, most consistent, most rockin’ albums of their career – The Devil You …
Read More »Live Review and Gallery: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult And Curse Mackey at (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC on 10.24.19
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult is currently on the second leg of the Strange Affairs Tour with the support of Curse Mackey. They made a thrilling stop at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge and Music Existence was there for the party. For the uninitiated, the Thrill Kill …
Read More »Live Review And Gallery: Starset, Palisades, HYDE And A Brilliant Lie At Gramercy Theatre In New York City 10-25-19
On Friday, October 25th, The citizens of the greater metropolitan area showed up to the Sold Out Gramercy Theatre for a live transmitted message brought to us by a group of musicians sent to us by the Starset Society known simply as Starset. Kicking things off that night was a band …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Stiff Little Fingers and Avengers at Warsaw in Brooklyn, NY (10.22.19)
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of their debut record, Inflammable Material, Belfast’s Stiff Little Fingers are touring the United States and playing the album in its entirety. Joining them on the road are San Francisco’s Avengers and the tour arrived in New York for a show at Warsaw in Brooklyn on …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, At The Gates, Grand Magus at Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, NY (10.12.19)
On Saturday October 12th, the Viking group of Amon Amarth landed their Berserker Tour on the Island of Manhattan to invade Hammerstein Ballroom along with their Swedish counterparts Grand Magus, At The Gates and Arch Enemy. The Swedish invasion took the island of Manhattan by storm battling on the grounds of …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Municipal Waste, Sick Of It All and Napalm Death At Bowery Ballroom In New York City 10-11-19
First off lets just start by saying the line up on this tour put simple is just insane! The tour consist of the Speed Metal party maniacs from Richmond, Virginia Municipal Waste, next you have New York Hard Core legends Sick Of It All and then all the way from …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Toto at Chicago Theatre in Chicago, IL. 10.04.19
Rock stalwarts, Toto, are still celebrating their 40th anniversary (their first album, which I still have on vinyl!, was released in 1978) and their greatest hits album, 40 Trips Around The Sun, out on tour bringing the music to the people. The band brought their eclectic style of music, some …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Melvins, Redd Kross at Warsaw in Brooklyn, NY (10.10.19)
Since the early 80s Montesano, Washington’s the Melvins have remained consistent in delivering their very own unique brand of punk/stoner rock. Led by the iconic frizzy haired frontman vocalist/guitarist Buzz Osborne along with drummer Dale Crover, together the two have nearly 30 albums under their belt through out their career …
Read More »Live Review + Gallery: Art Alexakis of Everclear at Space in Evanston, IL. 10.08.19
Everclear frontman, Art Alexakis, has set out on his own for a solo acoustic tour to celebrate the release of his first solo album, Sun Songs, that released on October 11, 2019. The album is a personal journey/expression for Art that touches on his recent diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis, his …
Read More »Gallery + Live Review: A Primitive Evolution at St. Vitus Bar Brooklyn, NY for Stimulate NYC on 09/27/19
On September 27th, as part of the Divine Descent US Tour 2019 with post-industrial English act <PIG> and Chicago-based Cyanotic, A Primitive Evolution made their way to Stimulate NYC’s anniversary event at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar. If there was ever a more perfect lineup it would be this trio right …
Read More »Louder Than Life Festival 2019
The last weekend in September is a weekend that many festival-goers have etched into their minds. September 27th-29th saw music lovers from all over the world pour into Louisville, KY’s Highland Festival Grounds at the KY Expo Center for Louder Than Life, one of the country’s largest rock festivals. Organized …
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