King Crimson | June 21, 2017 | Greek Theatre | Los Angeles, CA –...

Review by Shawn Perry As part of their 17-show “Radical Action Tour 2017,” King Crimson made a stop at the Greek Theatre for what can only be succinctly described as...

David Crosby: Let The Music Be Your Guide | February 1, 2014 | City...

Story & Photos by Kimberly Annette I had been in the city for less than 24 hours when I got the text: “David Crosby is playing tomorrow night. Would...

Robby Steinhardt | Not In Kansas Anymore – New Studio Release Review

Storm effects, wild riffing bass, guitar, and organ provide the bed to the opener “Tempest” off Robby Steinhardt’s first-ever solo album, Not In Kansas Anymore. Enlisting an impressive who’s-who of guests...

John Wetton | An Extraordinary Life – Box Set Review

Dearly departed John Wetton surely warrants a sprawling solo career retrospective…and he gets it with an eight-CD boxset called An Extraordinary Life. Although the bassist, vocalist, and songwriter played with...

Carl Palmer | Working Live Volume 3 – CD Review

Drummer Carl Palmer still hits very hard, very hard indeed. Carl Palmer is still pushing the limits of his drumming, pushing very hard indeed. Carl Palmer is not a...

Jerry Garcia | The Very Best Of Jerry Garcia – CD Review

Jerry Garcia’s activities outside of the Grateful Dead are well documented and all-encompassing. The amount of recording and playing he did as a solo artist, as well as with...

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...

Greg Lake | London ’81 – CD Review

I recall being rightly impressed by guitarist Gary Moore and his finger flights of fancy, emulating Keith Emerson on "Fanfare For The Common Man," when I caught a Greg...

Concert Review & Photos: The Yardbirds | September 22, 2011 | Coach House |...

Review by Shawn Perry Photos by Ron Lyon According to founding member Chris Dreja, the Yardbirds last set foot in the Coach House five years ago. With the rhythm guitarist...

The Ox & The Loon | April 24, 2014 | House of Blues |...

Review by Shawn Perry Photos by Ron Lyon The original Who was a four-headed monster — its brute strength and execution virtually unchallenged; impossible to duplicate for all its muscle, musicality...