Deep Purple | September 4 & 6, 2019 | The Wiltern – Los Angeles,...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Joe Schaeffer
Going on two years, Deep Purple’s The Long Goodbye Tour swung through Southern California for three dates — September 3 in Riverside, September...
The Waterboys | Out Of All This Blue – CD Review
Supporting their 2019 North American tour, the Waterboys have released an EP called Out Of All This Blue. In this four-song collection, not to be confused with the 2017...
King Crimson | September 3, 2019 | Greek Theatre | Los Angeles, CA –...
An Observation by Shawn Perry
Subject to change at the whim of leader and guitarist Robert Fripp, the King Crimson live experience offers no simple explanation. Nor does it try....
Dire Straits | Brothers In Arms – Lost Gem
In the 1980s, popular music was forced to adjust itself to a changing landscape. One of these changes came as a result of MTV, the 24-hour music television channel...
Stray Cats | August 28, 2019 | Greek Theatre | Los Angeles, CA –...
Review by Shawn Perry
Live Photos by Suzie Kaplan
I used to know one of these music snobs who thumbed his nose at the Stray Cats, citing a lack of musical...
Pat Travers | Swing! – CD Review
Forty years into his career, who would have ever thought electric guitar master Pat Travers would start swinging…for real? On his eight-song album Swing!, Travers interprets classics of the...
Tom Keifer | August 25, 2019 | The Canyon At The Rose | Pasadena,...
Review & Photos by Joe Schaeffer
At 9:15, the lights went dim and the speakers bellowed out “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin” by the Rolling Stones. Tom Keifer, best known...
John Fogerty, Tedeschi Trucks Band & Grace Potter | August 18, 2019 | Bethel...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Kevin Ferguson / Bethel Woods
Fifty years after he and Creedence Clearwater Revival tried to wake up half a million hippies lulled to sleep by the...
Joe Bonamassa | August 11, 2019 | Red Rocks Amphitheatre | Morrison, CO –...
Review & Photos by Junkman
For the fifth year in a row and the first of two nights, guitarist Joe Bonamassa and his outstanding band took to the stage of...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Think Of Laura (“G-L-O-R-I-A!”)
Photos Courtesy of Other Half Entertainment Archive
One thing our society will never tire of — be it via sports, arts, or other mediums – is Cinderella stories.
One of the...
