James Leg at the Northside Tavern, Cincinnati, OH, 4.23.11
Trucked on down to Cincinnati Saturday to see James Leg and drummer Andrew Jody put on a rattle-the-rafters show for the Solitary Pleasure record release show. After a European tour and a rough week of...
View ArticlePostcards from the Pit: Whitesnake
I saw Whitesnake at Irving Plaza last week – now there is a sentence I never expected to write – and about two songs into their set, it occurred to me: these are the kind of rock stars I fell in love...
View ArticleShouting Thomas Torment/T-Model Ford & GravelRoad at the Beachland Tavern,...
Shouting Thomas Torment Sometimes you go to a show just hoping the opening act won’t be unbearable. Then sometimes you get something like Shouting Thomas Torment. While sometimes situated in a...
View ArticleThe Dead Exs at the Bowery Electric, New York City, NY, 6.8.11
We’re very pleased to have a guest review from our good friend @Popa2unes. The Dead Exs release their CD – Resurrection, and it’s a party! By @Popa2unes and DJ Knucklehead Photos courtesy Kristin...
View ArticleScott H. Biram at the Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH, 6.24.11
One of these days, I will master the art of showing up to the Grog Shop at Just The Right Time – not too early, not too late. This past Friday was not that day. I missed all of Heelsplitter and caught...
View ArticleNicole Atkins/Booker T. Jones/The Black Keys, White River State Park,...
I am envious of everyone who was able to attend this show – Booker T. Jones and the Black Keys!? Are you freaking kidding me!? – but we are fortunate enough to have this great review and fantastic...
View ArticleDeep Blues Festival 2011, Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, OH, 7.16.11
Thinking about this post and trying to find a way to encapsulate some nine hours of great music and great people leaves me wanting to write “You should have been there” and leave it at that. But that...
View ArticleDaytrotter Barnstormer 5, Akron, OH, 8.31.11
“We’re in a barn. Shit.” – Dean Povinsky, Wildlife Having grown up in the country (not too far from the site where the Daytrotter Barnstormer 5 tour set down in Akron), I’m not unfamiliar with hearing...
View ArticleJC Brooks and the Uptown Sound: If Life Was Easy As a Song
JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound release their Bloodshot Records debut, Want More, today and it is a fine, fine soul album that feels and breathes and dances with a deep shimmy, not playing out as a...
View ArticlePhotos from the Austin City Limits Festival
Originally shot for Speakers in Code, our friend Nate Burrell has allowed us to share some of his photos from this year’s Austin City Limits Festival. The shots are so gorgeous, I’m not even going to...
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