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David Guetta

by The Staff February 16, 2012

Over the past couple years, the Washington Avenue Armory has established itself as an international tour stop for some of the biggest names in electronic dance music. On Feb. 2, French DJ David Guetta filled ...

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Peter Wolf

by The Staff February 16, 2012

Peter Wolf put on a clinic of cool Saturday night at the the Egg’s Swyer Theater, making up for an earlier canceled date. When leaving the show, a rock & roll drummer/lawyer exclaimed, “I absolutely ...

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Megadeth

by The Staff February 9, 2012

This photo pretty much says it all. The sneer, the locks, the sweatbands, the mothertruckin’ double-necked geetar—Dave Mustaine is still about as metal as it gets. For almost 30 years, Megadeth have reigned over the ...

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Branford Marsalis Duo and Quartet

by Jeff Nania February 9, 2012

Everybody take a deep breath and slow down. This seemed to be the message emanating from the drunken neoclassical waltz “La Valse Kendall,” which saxophonist Branford Marsalis and pianist Joey Calderazzo opened with at Proctors ...

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Zammuto

by Josh Potter February 9, 2012

“Now this band exists,” Nick Zammuto announced after the first song his self-titled quartet performed Friday night at MASS MoCA. A resident of nearby Readsboro, Vt., Zammuto has long used the contemporary art museum as ...

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Thurston Moore

by The Staff February 2, 2012

Sonic Youth guitarist and psych-rock demigod Thurston Moore brought his solo band and Sunday best to Club Helsinki last Friday (Jan. 27). The Northampton, Mass., resident kicked off a new international leg of touring following ...

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Carolina Chocolate Drops

by Josh Potter February 2, 2012

Any band working in the “old time” genre does so with a preservationist ethos. It’s the degree to which these modern musicians decide to reinterpret traditional tunes that separates the revivalists from the purists. The ...

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Rascal Flatts

by Laura Leon February 2, 2012

I incessantly subject my two youngest children to my love of country music. Granted, they are a captive audience. Granted, they can’t reach the dials on the car radio and are forbidden to touch my ...

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WEXT/Metroland Local 518 Broadcast: Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned

by The Staff January 27, 2012

On Jan. 20, Alex Muro and Tim Koch of Sgt. Dunbar and the Hobo Banned stopped by the Metroland offices for a special edition of WEXT's Local 518, in advance of their headlining set at ...

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The Lemonheads

by John Rodat January 19, 2012

There’s something slightly amnesiac about the appeal the Lemonheads have for me, apparently. The first time I saw the band, in 1993 touring the album Come on Feel the Lemonheads, my friends and I got ...

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Everclear

by The Staff January 19, 2012

So Much for the Afterglow, Everclear’s best-selling ’97 record, was far from a curtain call. The grunge-poppers were revelling in the afterglow Friday night at Northern Lights. Art Alexakis and company were in top form, ...

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

by Jeff Nania January 19, 2012

Edsel Gomez’s fingers riff on the piano and instantly focus the audience. The band members enter, and saxophonist Greg Handy blows a late-Coltrane style solo complete with intense polyphonics. Dee Dee Bridgewater graces the stage ...

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Best of 2011: Live

by The Staff January 5, 2012

Critic: Josh Potter 1. Francis and the Lights EMPAC, Oct. 29 Singer takes a 40-foot free fall into a hidden air cushion after performing a power ballad on a white Fender Rhodes perched on a ladder-accessed platform. ‘Nuff ...

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On Tour

by The Staff December 29, 2011

A pair of heels didn’t prevent Sharon Jones from getting down at the Egg in January with her band the Dap-Kings Lightning Bolt pushed the limits of the Valentine’s circuit breaker and the human eardrum in ...

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Wu-Tang Clan

by Taylor Morris December 21, 2011

Back in October, I took to these same pages to question why Method Man—a veteran, remarkably talented rapper from New York, preoccupied with defining “real rap”—joined a Smokers Club tour that featured a bevy of ...

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Judy Collins

by Shawn Stone December 21, 2011

Judy Collins is a delight in concert. Part of it is her evident joy at being onstage. With her great mane of white hair, Collins has a regal presence. She’s also as chatty as your best ...

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Mike Gordon

by Jeremy D. Goodwin December 14, 2011

Guitarist (and chief songwriter) Trey Anastasio has long been the true rock star of Phish. He’s the one with the most ambitious solo career outside of the band; he’s currently working on a musical, and ...

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Between the Buried and Me

by David King December 14, 2011

Between the Buried and Me never fail to deliver an absurdly tight set of progressive metal, with an emphasis on “progressive.” Their playing is flawless, lead singer Tommy Rogers delivers a sense of drama and ...

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Amy LaVere

by The Staff December 8, 2011

There may be nothing more charming than a girl and her upright bass. It’s even better when she can actually play the thing. It was Amy LaVere’s voice, though, that was most on display last ...

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Alice Cooper

by Jeremy D. Goodwin December 8, 2011

There’s no reason rock & roll can’t incorporate elements of theater without being cloying. But at some point between The Wall and Whitesnake, practitioners forgot there was a difference between the onstage persona and the ...

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Joe Locke Trio

by Jeff Nania December 8, 2011

“I was a crappy piano player and a crappy drummer, so I figured I better find another instrument,” Joe Locke said during a Q&A session before his trio concert Saturday night at the Athens Cultural ...

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Rat-A-Tat Tattoo and Music Expo

by The Staff December 1, 2011

As one seasoned fan observed, New York hardcore vets Sick of It All “sound as good as they were when they were 16.” No doubt, the band’s headlining set on Saturday at Northern Lights was ...

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Sam Bush

by Jeremy D. Goodwin December 1, 2011

Sam Bush is a workhorse. Forty years after first disturbing the conventions of bluegrass with his New Grass Revival, the bandleader and mandolinist is still barnstorming the country with his highly energetic brew of bluegrass, ...

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Shonen Knife

by Paul Rapp November 22, 2011

Japanese punk princesses Shonen Knife’s 2011 world tour conluded with their debut Albany gig at Valentine’s. Good freakin’ get, Mr. Glassman! Looking like 1960s stewardesses in coordinated Modrian-inspired A-line dresses, the girls raised a fuss ...

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Chris Cornell

by Kirsten Ferguson November 22, 2011

“I think there are certain emotions you forget when you live without the seasons,” said Chris Cornell at the start of his sold-out show at the Egg last Thursday. The Northeast autumn air outside had ...

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