As I was on my way to see New Monsoon, I thought I knew what to expect. They are, after all, a San Francisco jam-band playing at a bar next to a head shop. I thought that…
3:34 pm – My sister’s friend is under the hood of his Volvo, which was manufactured during the Reagan administration, “This thing gonna’ make it?” “Oh ya, just checking the oil and stuff.” ‘And stuff’ I think…
7:34pm – I pull into a parallel parking spot next to the student union that resembles a tiny spaceship, very fitting considering the cornfields surrounding Taylor, and five of us unfold out of my Honda Civic. We…
It is hard to believe that some music fans, maybe a majority, will never see a show like Unwed Sailor’s set at the Launching Pad in Muncie, IN. It’s a sad fact. No one would begrudge a…
It is impressive when a band can sound simultaneously grandiose a la progressive rock and intimate like a lone guitarist playing acoustic melodies in his bedroom. San Francisco’s refined nine-piece Citay has pulled it off. The band…
The 11:11 Teahouse is located between Little Five Points and downtown Atlanta. The eccentric venue has a small playing floor right next to four large bay windows. The space escapes the constraints of the normal rock venue.…
“Are you a nut?” Normally, I might get offended by a stranger questioning my sanity, or lack thereof, but I’m at a Sister Hazel concert, so I deemed it appropriate. I’m surrounded by Hazelnuts, the term bestowed…
Violently obliterating rock and roll’s boundaries, Acid Mothers Temple sound like the slow explosion of melting, white hot spiraling galaxies. Such spaced out metaphors may sound corny, yet the music collective seems to travel through black holes…
Neither singer/songwriter Mike Doughty nor his former band Soul Coughing have ever been the type to draw stadium crowds or massive sales. Music critic Steve Huey once accurately described Soul Coughing, in particular, as being “a wildly…
I can appreciate why a venue would oversell a show. There will always be those who buy tickets and can’t make it, so for contingency purposes it makes sense to sell a certain number of tickets over…