Tab Benoit // Live @ Headliners // 12.16.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - January 3, 2023 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Louisville KY— I had been listening to this guy’s music for a few days trying to figure out an approach to the upcoming concert. Tab Benoit has been touring nonstop, more or less, for the past five years, save six months off the road
Sad night Dynamite // Live at Lincoln Hall // 11.23.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED by Charles Yamabe - December 17, 2022December 17, 2022 Article and Photos by: Charles Yamabe Chicago, IL -- Imagine the Gorillaz met Blink 182 and they had a baby. Then that baby grew up and became a rowdy British punk rocker... That combination of musical genres would give you the band known as Sad Night Dynamite. The duo consists of
Phantoms // Live at the House of Blues // 11.19.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED Uncategorized by Charles Yamabe - December 7, 2022 Article and Photos by: Charles Yamabe Chicago, IL -- It's a Saturday night in November, and Chicago is seeing the coldest day of the winter it has seen so far this year. To compound the frightful weather, Chicago had just come off an unusually warm streak. Those two factors made it
GWAR // Live @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre // 11.02.22 CONCERT REVIEWS MUSIC Uncategorized by E. Jourdain, Jr. - November 23, 2022 Article and Photos by: E. Jourdain, Jr. Toronto, Ontario — Crobot are a rock band from Pennsylvania. I have heard a good number of their songs but this would be my first time seeing them live. I was curious to see how they’d do opening the show on a tour featuring goblins,
Goo Goo Dolls // Live @ The Palace // 11.9.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - November 23, 2022November 25, 2022 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Louisville KY— The Goo Goo Dolls Chaos in Bloom tour hit the road in August after the band's three year hiatus, sponsored by covid. I got the sense that the audience, just like me, was a little tentative at the opening of the performance Saturday night
OTTTO // Live @ The End // 11.12.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Ommar Ortuvia - November 16, 2022November 17, 2022 Article and Photos by: Ommar Ortuvia Houston, TX -- OTTTO is a trio hailing from Venice Beach, California, composed of Bryan Noah Ferretti on guitar and vocals, Tye Trujillo on bass, and Patrick “Triko” Chavez on drums. You may have heard of Tye Trujillo before, as he garnered worldwide attention when
Puscifer // Live @ Brady Music Center // 11.10.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Linda Carlson - November 16, 2022November 17, 2022 Article & Photos by: Linda Carlson Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center was at near-capacity for Puscifer’s Existential Reckoning Tour Part 2, in support of the band’s fourth studio album, Existential Reckoning (released 2020). The stage was outfitted with a simple but effective scaffold arrangement that allowed band
SunSquabi / lespecial // Live @ Visulite Theatre // 11.9.2022 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC Uncategorized by Jason Robey - November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Photos and review by: Jason Robey CHARLOTTE, NC -- Progressive power trio lespecial and livetronica trio SunSquabi kicked off their fall tour on Wednesday night at the Visulite Theatre in Charlotte. Well before show time, the venue getting packed in tight by the scores of fans both bands have built up in the
Michael Schenker Group // Live @ Bogarts // 10.29.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Michael W. Bright - November 10, 2022November 11, 2022 Article and Photos by: Michael W. Bright Cincinnati, OH—How can a 67 year-old heavy metal guitarist be fronting a 50th Year Anniversary tour? Michael Schenker began working with his brother’s band, the Scorpions, when he was only 11 years old, and joined officially when he was 17. That’s how! As part
Rival Sons // Live @ Bogart’s // 10.30.22 CONCERT REVIEWS FEATURED MUSIC by Linda Carlson - November 5, 2022 Article & Photos by: Linda Carlson Cincinnati, OH – Halloween Eve at Bogart’s found Cincinnati’s WEBN radio station hosting “WEBN Night Of The Rocking Dead,” with headliner Rival Sons. The WEBN crew really embraced the spirit of the Halloween theme. Giovannie & The Hired Guns opened the evening. Fronted by lead singer