Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Jagger/Arcade Fire-The Last Time

This was supposed to be bad. A tired rock star giving the middle finger to bandmates who can’t tour without him. But from the very beginning of the show, Jagger exuded a charisma and confidence that was incredibly endearing, even in the skits. Instead of looking desperate, he took the whole show up a notch. [...]

Bruce Springsteen At The Sports Arena

We’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky groundWe’ve been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where the highlight of a Bruce Springsteen show is not only a new song, but one that features rapping? We don’t go to the Springsteen show to look forward, [...]

Holograms

This is a non-story. Troupes of holograms will not be gracing the stages of amphitheatres, it was a one time stunt, which paid dividends for Snoop and Dre, expect it to be trotted out to diminishing returns in the future, like 3-D movies, but if you think holograms are where live entertainment is going, you [...]

Bon Iver At Coachella

I thought I was going to be crushed at the David Guetta show. And I wasn’t even in the tent. Happened to me once before, decades back, at a Chambers Brothers show in Boston Common. My feet left the ground, I was being held up by bodies, somehow I squirmed my way to the right [...]