When I first saw the Big 4 at Yankee Stadium concert advertised – a 30th anniversary celebration of the pioneer thrash metal bands – I was thinking this could be a lot of fun. My friend Joe mentioned wanting to go and he got several floor tickets. He was disappointed that they weren’t for the […]
Well if I ever wondered where Justin Townes Earle gets his charisma from I need not look any further than Steve Earle. How I’ve gone all this time not seeing Steve perform is a mystery – raised in Texas, songwriter in Nashville in the 1970s whose mentors are Guy Clarke and Townes Van Zandt, roots/rock […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen some live music and I was definitely jonesing. rtb mentioned Fashion’s Night Out and I wasn’t planning to attend since I’m not a fashion person and the events in Queens were raffles and cocktail wienies but then she sent a link to a celebration of Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday […]
Is it 1975 in here? Tie-dyed shirts. Long hair. Beards. Pot smoke inside the club. Cigarette smoke inside the club. Lighters being waved in the air inside the club. I bought a ticket for The Chris Robinson Brotherhood because I love Chris Robinson’s voice and what he does with blues rock. What I got was […]
Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin all in one week. Lord, this must be heaven. The concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors was at 7:00pm and I was trying to meet rtb at 6:00pm but somehow got on the Lexington Avenue and instead of the Seventh Avenue IRT. So I had to take the M66 […]
Summer on the Oval is a series of free concerts in the park that sits in the middle of Stuyvesant Town. violaleeblue emailed rtb and me about the concert on Saturday. Unfortunately she couldn’t go but rtb was nearby and I decided it was worth a trip in from Queens. The site is beautiful. We […]
All hail the queen! Performers give themselves titles all the time. Some ironic. Some ridiculous. And every so often a title that is true. Aretha is the Queen of Soul. And last night she proved why no one would ever dispute that fact. This second trip to Nikon at Jones Beach Theater was brought about […]
Billy Bragg has been playing his version of folk/punk and folk/rock since the early 1980s. He’s also a professional leftist and many of his songs are political. He’s out there on the front lines. So when the tickets for his show at City Winery turned out to be twice as expensive as any other show […]
An announcement this past Tuesday on Lucero’s Facebook page: Nobody’s Darlings would be playing a late show at the Mercury Lounge on Saturday – tickets go on sale Friday and they’ll probably sell out quickly. Since Lucero would be playing the Vans Warped Tour at Nassau Coliseum earlier in the day, this secret show was […]
Panoramic Theater. In Battery Park, the ferry, and Governors Island. Beautiful summer weather. Shakespeare with a cast of 10s. And 500 audience members. Free Shakespeare in the Park is a long-standing NYC tradition that I’ve never taken advantage of because I don’t want to stand on those long lines for the Public Theater performances. I […]
