Show Reviews

Arizona natives The Word Alive treated Springfield, MO to the start of a holiday weekend with their summer tour at the Outland Ballroom. It was a breezy summer day, and the vibes couldn’t have been better. I caught a glimpse of The Word Alive at last year’s Houston Open Air, …

Two words to define RavenEye: consistency and energy. The British rock outfit debuted themselves in Portugal opening up for rock legends Aerosmith at Lisbon’s MEO Arena. This is a band that shows a kind of determination and dedication on stage that grabs the audience from the first song. You could …

Dark Star Orchestra 6/24/17 – Riveredge Park – Aurora, IL. By Bradley Todd             Dark Star Orchestra, the well known Grateful Dead cover band, is celebrating their 20th anniversary of “continuing the Grateful Dead concert experience” with a summer tour that recently made an early tour stop at the lovely …

Guns and Roses,Not in This Lifetime tour, Europe leg, third stop Lisbon. A sea of people in band t-shirts approached Passeio Maritimo de Algés on Friday, June 2nd for a sold out show celebrating the reunion of one of the biggest rock n’ roll bands on the planet. From old …

Train played in Camden, NJ last Thursday night at the BB&T Pavilion as part of their Play That Song tour. If you’ve ever seen Train perform live, you know they put on an amazing show using multimedia and physical elements. This show was no exception as they came out to their famous crown …

Lisbon has many small hidden places that often gather musicians and music lovers. In such a small country, you would not expect to find so many good musicians in so many different trendy sites. Casa Independente is one of those places. The band They’re Heading West is holding a residency …

RATT 6/2/17 – Concord Music Hall – Chicago, IL. By Bradley Todd Now that Ratt’s legal wranglings with their original, and now former, drummer for control of the Ratt name seem to have come to a close, it’s time for the recently reunited band to get back to the business …

The Garage seems to be now, a popular venue for some of Glasgow’s best Pop Punk shows and tonight was no exception with Homebound, Too Close To Touch, Set It Off and With Confidence. Homebound kicked things off in style with an amazing energy, not many people there seem to …

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds kicked off the first night of their U.S. tour for Skeleton Tree last night at King’s Theatre and the performance was nothing short of electric. The band took the stage punctuated with moody blue lighting and a singular white spotlight illuminated Cave as he …

  Kilmarnock, Scotland rockers Biffy Clyro have long since established themselves as rock royalty across the pond in the United Kingdom. Overseas the band regularly sells out 20,000 plus seat capacity venues while touring on hit singles and number one records. They’ve also leveled up to the degree where in …

Richie Kotzen 5/4/17 – Arcada Theatre – St. Charles, IL. By Bradley Todd  It’s hard for me to decide what I like best about Richie Kotzen. He got his start as a professional musician in the form of an upcoming guitar hero, and I first heard his name when he …

Blues Traveler 4/27/17 – Genesee Theatre – Waukegan, IL. By Bradley Todd              Blues Traveler is currently on a Spring/Summer tour, perhaps as a warm up for their 30th anniversary tour which begins later this year, and made a recent stop at Waukegan’s grand Genesee Theatre to give the greater …