Montrose | September 9, 2011 | Coach House | San Juan Capistrano, CA
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon and Jim McCluney
Montrose — the band — was one of those cool 70s groups teeming with talent and ambition. It was only...
Foreigner: The Hits Unplugged | October 30, 2016 | Cerritos Center for the Performing...
Review by Shawn Perry
It’s one thing to see Foreigner going full bore on an arena stage, and it’s another to see six of the seven members sitting on stools...
The Doobie Brothers | September 2, 2011 | Ravinia Festival | Highland...
Review and photos by Alex Kluft
The Doobie Brothers played a fantastic show at the Ravinia Festival, their eighth appearance at the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States....
2011 Sunset Strip Music Festival Review
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Alex Kluft
The Sunset Strip Music Festival keeps expanding and diversifying and stretching itself out over three blocks of the immortal boulevard, an area...
Tom Petty And Me: My Rock ‘N’ Roll Adventures With Tom Petty – Book...
Tom Petty And Me: My Rock ‘N’ Roll Adventures With Tom Petty is Jon Scott’s account of breaking the first album of and his subsequent decades-long friendship with the...
Eddie Vedder | July 6, 2011 | Terrace Theater | Long Beach, CA
Review by Ron Lyon & Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon
“Hello Long Beach…”
Three words Eddie Vedder apparently thought he’d never put together. But as someone who spent his formative...
Slash | September 26, 2014 | Whisky A Go Go | Hollywood, CA –...
Review & Photos by Junkman
Celebrating the release of his second full album with vocalist Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, World On Fire, guitarist Slash did a three-date takeover of...
Porcupine Tree | Closure/Continuation – Blu-ray Disc Review
For me to gain full appreciation of Closure/Continuation, Porcupine Tree’s 11th studio album coming 12 years after the last one, 2009’s The Incident, I had to listen to it...
Pete Townshend | Universal Reissues – CD Review
From Universal’s treasure trove of treats comes no less than 12 remastered solo CDs from Pete Townshend. Anyone who doubts the creative powers of the Who leader need look...
R.E.M | Warner Brothers Reissues – CD/DVD Review
You can argue that R.E.M. was, at one time, the quintessential 80s band. But it was during the 90s that they learned to refine their sound and craft their...

















