Ever heard of Dover, Delaware? You know, the capital city of that first U.S. state, located just under Pennsylvania and New Jersey and cut off from Maryland by one clean eastern border…The one with Dover International Speedway, Silver Lake, a quaint, down-home feel… And Firefly Music Festival? In late July of this year (the 20-22, [...]
Thu, Dec 8, 2011
Dangerously addictive and musically clever British garage rock group the Arctic Monkeys have decided to join the Black Keys (who have just dropped their seventh album, El Camino, co-produced by Danger Mouse) in some of their next dates, spanning from now to the 23 of March next year. The Arctics will be joining the Keys for the last [...]
Mon, Oct 17, 2011
A glance into the explosive garage-rock scene of the early nineties, PJ Harvey is set to once more come forth and grace the stage for an end-of-October mini-tour extravaganza. Playing in support of her latest album, two-and-a-half-year feat Let England Shake, Harvey has announced but five dates, all of which range in location from Sweden to [...]
Fri, Sep 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, [...]
Mon, Aug 29, 2011
I was honestly afraid we’d seen the last of musician/producer Jack White, considering he stopped touring with the Dead Weather late last year and disbanded the White Stripes earlier this year, and that we’d therefore seen the last of the Raconteurs…but I was afraid (past-tense), until I happened upon Jack’s Third Man Records site a few days [...]
Fri, Aug 5, 2011
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi prove marriage and some great friends can put together an incredible album . Before the upcoming Boston show on August 17th at the Bank of America Pavilion, I asked Susan and Derek a few questions and this is what they had to say about it: ZME: With the soon [...]
Tue, Aug 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 [...]
Wed, Jul 13, 2011
Angsty English garage rock trio Band of Skulls has just announced their up-and-coming European tour, to be held in October of this year. With their tricky, hang-on-the-wire rhythms and delicate harmonies, Band of Skulls made their name in the tough world of indie rock; on the other hand, they are not afraid to pull out the muddy guitar of eras long [...]
Thu, Jun 16, 2011
Thirty-four studio albums released and 70 years in, Bob Dylan seems more like an extraterrestrial than a simple human being. If any of you have been following Bob Dylan around for a while in his past 50 years career, you’d probably know that the prolific songwriter has embarked on his Never Ending Tour in 1988 [...]
Tue, Jun 14, 2011
Apparently, the seventeen tour dates completed in North America this spring weren’t enough for The Kills, seeing as the raw rock n’ roll duo from London just announced a second leg of the tour, which consists of nine dates and begins this August. The band, comprised of powerful (and daunting) vocalist Alison Mosshart and her striking guitarist Jamie Hince, has [...]
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