Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


A Hard Day’s Night Live At The Hollywood Bowl

All Songs +1: The Beatles Are Live And Sounding Better Than Ever What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a fifty year old recording of a defunct band trumps the work of the modern masters? One in which most acts play to track in search of perfection and have lived […]

MIke Posner At The Grammy Museum

I came to hear “I Took A Pill In Ibiza,” but I got so much more! It was the most meaningful gig in memory, I couldn’t play the radio on the way home, I was numb, I was basking in the experience. I didn’t expect this, when we spoke in the green room…he wasn’t completely […]

Hey Violet and Jessarae At The Echoplex

Richard Griffiths ran Epic in the U.S. Harry Magee ran A&M in the U.K. Together they run a Modest! Management, most famous for handling One Direction. But they also manage Five Seconds Of Summer, whose success they built on the back of 1D. And now they’re building Hey Violet on the back of 5SOS. Jessarae […]

Dean Without Jan At The Levitt Pavilion

I  bought blue sneakers because that’s what Dean was wearing on the cover of the live album “Command Performance.” And they were not easy to find. In Fairfield, Connecticut, everybody wore P.F. Flyers or Keds, in white, black had gone out with the fifties, this was not California, Fairfield’s a lonely town when you’re the […]