Jim Morrison once said, “I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.” No offense to Mr. Mojo Risin, but I’m not on LSD (presently) and the best way I know to get friends and people excited about bands they’ve never heard of is to compare them to ones…
Perhaps my biggest musical regret in life is that I didn’t get into the Grateful Dead until my senior year of high school. Jerry Garcia passed away less than a year after I started devouring Dead tunes as fast as I could. At the time, I would scour Jack’s Music Shoppe in Red Bank, NJ, for any…
It’s never easy leaving a four day music festival, but if there is a silver lining, besides the much needed sobriety, it’s I’ve just added 20+ bands to my brain that I had never heard of 96 hours earlier. The real prize of that is over the next ten months, these bands will be playing small venues across ‘Merica relativity still unheard of…
To be honest, looking back at the last 48 hours, I’ve really been kicking myself for never having heard of Nathaniel Rateliff. Sure, I had heard their hit song “S.O.B” several times, but I never knew who sang it or what they were about. When I heard Nate Rateliff was playing a concert at America’s largest landscaped…
Let’s briefly rewind the clock to March 25, 2016. My 68 year old mother texted me saying she really wanted to go to this show at the 9:30 Club on April 6, and could I help her get tickets. I hopped on 930.com to scroll down and see a band I had never heard of for tickets at $104…
Quiet since an extraordinary three night Mexican adventure back in January, Phish will return to the road to kick off their summer tour in less than three weeks. The shows in Rivera Maya marked the first time the boys have gone south of the Rio Grande to perform, and their first international shows since a lone…
Live rock n’ roll shows come in so many flavors: Indoor, Outdoor, Festivals, Arenas, football stadiums, house parties, dive bars, Red Rocks, the Pyramids, on and on. While I thoroughly enjoy the acoustics of arena and club shows, nothing beats seeing one of your favorite bands in an intimate venue no matter where it is. I…
“Summer Summer Summertime! Time to sit back and unwind!” The Fresh Prince’s 1991 ode to the warmer months of the year is still one of my favorite tunes to bump as I drive out of the parking lot on that last day of school. (I appreciate summers off as a teacher way more than I ever…
Whenever I’m attending a concert, even more so now at the spry age of 39, whether it be a backyard party with some talented kids or an arena packed with 20,000, without fail, a hard-to-describe feeling pushes down through my bones like a cheap french press that’s an equal mix of awe and jealously. That…
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