Show Reviews

On Friday, July 5, 2019, the 41st season of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival continued at Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, NY. The evening’s lineup featured free performances by Baltimore’s Joy Postell, Santa Monica, California’s Leven Kali, Brooklyn’s Leikeli47, and a headlining set by Chicago’s Mick Jenkins. R&B singer Joy Postell …

On Saturday, June 29, 2019, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival continued with a free concert featuring performances by Liz Phair, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and Caroline Rose. Thunderstorms were predicted to occur in the New York City area but luckily, it rained lightly for a brief period of time and …

Kings of Chaos, the rock supergroup with the rotating cast, visited Aurora, Illinois’ Riveredge Park on 6/22/19, and featured Dee Snider (singer, Twisted Sister), Sebastian Bach (singer, formerly of Skid Row), Lou Gramm (singer, formerly of Foreigner), Warren DiMartini (guitarist, formerly of Ratt), Gilby Clarke (guitarist, formerly of Guns ‘n’ …

When Topfest announced their first headliner back in November I could not quite believe that the guitar legend Slash with his comrades Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators – Todd Kerns, Brent Fitz and Frank Sidoris, will make it to Slovakia. Frank unfortunately had to sit out this part of the …

Those coming to Guns ‘N’ Roses bassist, Duff McKagan’s, solo show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall on Thursday expecting to hear the rock ‘n’ roll renaissance man run through a set of GNR big hits might have left disappointed…and there were many attendees in Guns shirts at the show. But for …

Performing in New York City for the first time in 22 years, Bikini Kill headlined Brooklyn Steel on Friday, May 31, 2019 supported by local trio Palberta (Nina Ryser, Anina Ivry-Block, and Lily Konigsberg). Tickets for the show, along with a performance at Terminal 5, originally went on sale on …

It’s been twenty three years since Apocalyptica released their ground-breaking debut album Plays Metallica by Four Cellos. Eight albums, and countless touring hours later, Apocalyptica return to North America to celebrate the music that started it all. While this tour is wrapping up tonight at Mohegan Sun, I have no doubt …

On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, the tour featuring two bands from Los Angeles, Starcrawler and The Distillers, came to Brooklyn, NY for a sold out show at Brooklyn Steel. Beginning their set promptly just before 8PM, Starcrawler performed songs from their 2018 self-titled record plus their cover of The Ramones’ …

Slayer – Xfinity Center – Mansfield, MA – May 25, 2019 Before Slayer goes and lays waste to the halls of Valhalla alongside the metal gods of lore and probably Lemmy, they chose to make one final stop at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts this past Saturday. With gusty …

On Friday, May 24, 2019, Filthy Friends’ 12 date tour along the east and west coasts of North America came to an end in Brooklyn, NY at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The band, which features Peter Buck (of R.E.M.), Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), drummer Linda Pitmon, bassist Scott McCaughey, and guitarist …

On Friday evening or “afternoon” as frontman Mark Osegueda would refer to the bands early set time, the Bay Area thrashers Death Angel took the stage in front of the New York City crowd for the first time ever together with their long time veteran east coast thrash heavy weights …

In 1992 Life Of Agony toured with Over Kill, and once again Brooklyn’s very own Life Of Agony would join the veteran thrash metal heavy weights Over Kill along with Death Angel and Mothership for a special one night only show in New York City. Though Life Of Agony aren’t …