Category: LIVE REVIEWS

There’s a scene at the end of Spike Jonze’s 2020 documentary Beastie Boys Story where Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz revisits the group’s final

Roaring thunder, bright lightning, torrential rain and the sort of sweltering humidity that brings grown men to tears could not—did

At a time when “pop” insistently goes out of its way to accommodate the middle (even when its so-called edginess

Though flush with the vine-ripened energy and skronky invention of post-punk and no wave’s late 1970s, this synergistic live bill

“You know how they say Black Flag got in a van, and they brought punk rock to the world? Well,

Dogstar at Webster Hall, New York City. Photos on Wes Orshoski.

Not long before Garth Brooks began country’s rock/pop rush into the mainstream it currently resides, there was a flurry of

Tori Amos and Bartees Strange at the Met, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Rush at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

Eleni Mandell at 48 Record Bar, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Judy Collins, Richard Thompson and Elles Bailey at the Lansdowne Theater, Lansdowne, Pa. Photos by Chris Sikich.