Leon Bridges Where are all the black people? That’s what everybody was remarking at Leon Bridges’s sold-out show at the Greek last night. If you were in attendance you’d think he’s one of the biggest acts on the planet. But he’s not. Welcome to the modern music business of niches, where you can be a […]

Electric. If you’d have asked me whether I wanted to go, I would have said no. But my friend Steve was in from New York, and he’s their longtime agent, and we were gonna have dinner before, so… I said I was in. We went to Republique, the old Campanile space. Did you ever go […]

I didn’t see you there. This band is completely under the radar, yet their entire tour went clean, the upper deck at Staples was full, what was going on? I’m not sure I can tell you, but the girls got it, they understand, they were in attendance and… They knew every word. It’s not like […]

Keep on-a rock’n me, baby It was not nostalgia, at least not until Miller’s encore, when he reeled off a bunch of hits. The guitar era is in the past. The blues era is in the past. But it came alive last night. What on the surface seemed a return to what once was, set […]