Heart | January 31, 2013 | Mayo Performing Arts Center | Morristown, NJ –...
Review by Ralph Greco, Jr.
It’s one of the formative concerts of my life: Heart at the Capital Theatre Passaic, New Jersey in 1978 (italicized in my mind forever). Having...
Bohemian Rhapsody: No Breakthru Biopic But Flush With Killer Moments
Warning: I take all things Queen very seriously.
Since age eight, this has been my favorite band. I consider it my personal mission to extol the greatness — both in...
The Traveling Wilburys | The Traveling Wilburys Collection – CD Review
Fresh on the heels of his 80s comeback album Cloud Nine, George Harrison, along with partner-in-crime, ELO leader/producer Jeff Lynne, was buzzing with new ideas. Somehow, in the general...
The Alan Parsons Project | Reissues – CD Review
Beginning as a ‘tea-runner’ at Abbey Road studios, Alan Parsons graduated to engineering albums like the Beatles' Let It Be and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon....
Stick Men | August 11, 2017 | The Van Dyck | Schenectady, NY –...
Review by Dave Gardiner
Photos by Stan Johnson
Stick Men (bassist Tony Levin, drummer Pat Mastelotto, and guitarist Markus Reuter) made a triumphant return to the intimate setting of the Van...
Black Sabbath | Classic Albums: Paranoid – Blu-Ray Disc Review
There is little argument that Paranoid was “a defining moment” for Black Sabbath. Both the song and the album it was titled after helped to catapult Sabbath from scruffy...
Cheap Trick | At Budokan – Classic Commentary
In 1978, if you wanted a copy of Cheap Trick's At Budokan, you had to plop down $11.99 for the Japanese import. Epic, in their infinite wisdom, eventually released the...
AndersonPonty Band | May 1, 2016 | Grove of Anaheim | Anaheim, CA –...
Review by Shawn Perry
In the eight years since he was unceremoniously dismissed from Yes, singer Jon Anderson has bounced back time and time again. He has collaborated on...
Bon Jovi | New Jersey (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
It was 1988 and MTV was chugging along strongly with bands like Bon Jovi and the album New Jersey, the follow-up to the massively successful Slippery When Wet. This...
Long Beach Blues Festival | August 30-31, 2008 | Rainbow Lagoon Park | Long...
Concert Review by Shawn Perry
Hot, hot, hot. That might be a good way to describe the 29th annual Long Beach Blues Festival. The music was hot, the food was...
