Act: Alice Gold Support Acts: Tara Chinn, The Robert Lane Band, Monument Valley Venue: Hare and Hounds, Kingsheath, Birmingham Date: 6/3/2012 The maiden gig of her ten date national tour tonight finds London chanteuse Alice Gold treating her lucky audience to not only an evening of her own unique brand power pop stylings but [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
I had the good fortune to see the ska-punk band Mustard Plug play in Toledo, OH recently, at Frankie’s Inner City. They’re a Grand Rapids, MI-based band, so it was odd for me – a Michigan resident – to see them out of state. One of the people I went with has seen them six [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011
The Honda Civic Tour has struck again – for the 10th year in a row, as a matter of fact! This year, the annual pop/punk/hip-hop/rock show is featuring the headlining acts Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance, with an ever-changing selection of supporting bands. When the show went rolling through Detroit, my concert-going city of choice, [...]
Monday, September 19, 2011
All is quiet in the Oakland Fox Theatre; the Friday night air (in which the scents of various types of alcohol and stale breath swim) has never been so…silent. The crowd waits, enthralled, hanging on any sound they could manage to hear from beyond the black side-curtains of the stage. Boots hit the hardwood stage [...]
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
It was near the ending of the psychedelic rock generation that brought in the beginnings of Glam Rock. Bands like T-Rex, David Bowie and “The Sweet” were becoming main stream. It’s hard to imagine that some 40 years have passed and bands like Sweet are still performing. Steve Priest spoke with me before the [...]
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