Concert Review: BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Reveals Its Artsier Side

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn is having its best line-up EVER. The summer festival just premiered, and it is unstoppable in the prime music- acts it is…

Concert Review: YOU NEED TO SEE Cloud Cult’s The Seeker

I have reviewed Cloud Cult before, and marveled how spiritually uplifting and resonating their show can be. They present life like a pilgrimage; one giant…

Concert Review: Missio Show Fun IS Nothing Without A Little Crazy At Rough Trade NYC

Missio’s mission is to get you lit; plain and simple. Their debut album, Loner ,plays to the notion that if you feel like your life…

Album Review: Bent Knee Show Humans How They Are A “Land Animal”

When music makes you dream, I find it successful. Whether that dream is good or bad, does not necessarily reflect upon the music itself. The…

Concert Review: Walker Lukens Is The Millennial Eric Clapton

Walker Lukens might be the Millennial Eric Clapton. With his glasses and guitar, he mashed rock and psychedelic funk like a child would mash through…

Concert Review: Cigarettes After Sex Play To Love In Park Church Co-op

It is very unusual, as a Catholic, to come to church where there is a cash bar, and a band named Cigarettes After Sex (CAS)…

Album Review: Maybird Are “Unraveling” The Difference Between Okay And Better

You ever have a dream where you are falling? It could be from a building or on a sidewalk, but, no matter what, it is…

Album Review: Jaymes Young Wants You To Feel Something

Jaymes Young’s Feel Something is not just the title of his debut; it is the command you must abide. His debut is as fiery and…

Concert Review: Mobley Turns Kola House Into His Home

If you read my Secret Weapons review, I stated that every artist, even the one’s with star quality, start in small, even awkward concert spaces.…

Concert Review: Secret Weapons Bring Pop Swag To Webster Hall

Secret Weapons (SW) in the NYC brainchild of Gerry Lange and Dan E, and I am very happy that brainchild was born. Some people really…

Concert Review: Air Traffic Controller Land Perfectly In Mercury Lounge

  Air Traffic Controller (ATC) brought a jam-session to Mercury Lounge. While concert and jam session may seem like an interchangeable term, the difference lies…

Concert Review: The Ludlow Thieves Make Are Invincible At Bowery Ballroom

              The Ludlow Thieves were a blast at Bowery Ballroom. These folk-rock superstars play to the big moments in…

Concert Review: Gordi Shows NYC The Duality Of Its Heart At The Standard

I have always said that setting can drive a performance more than what you think, especially in bringing out certain messages and moods to your…

Album Review: Terence Ryan Gives A Soulful Cry For Middle America In “Don’t Panic”

“Well, HELLO Terence Ryan!” is my most basic reaction to Terence Ryan’s debut, Don’t Panic. For a man that swims and strokes in love and…

Album Review: Ruby Force Guides You Up Into An “Evolutionary Road”

“OOoOoOOoOOOOOoOOoO” is the sound I made when I heard Ruby Force’s alternative country debut, Evolutionary War. This country starlet is soooooo right for this genre…