Avett Brothers Light Up The Rady Shell for a Blissful Summer Evening on San Diego Bay
Many bands struggle with balancing a variety of seemingly disparate musical styles, there is the understandable fear of not presenting a coherent identity. Kudos to The Avett Brothers ... Continue Reading →
Crowded House Closes Out Their US Tour in Fine Form: The lads from Down Under came and conquered
The fourth and final installment of my somewhat inadvertent “The Sun Never Seems to Set on the British Music Empire Tour”
Choosing to wrap up their US tour not in Los Angeles (whence ... Continue Reading →
Paul Weller at The Magnolia – Exploring a Deep and Varied Catalog
The first installment of my somewhat inadvertent “The Sun Never Seems to Set on the British Music Empire Tour”
Paul Weller has three distinct chapters to his career. He punched ... Continue Reading →
Johnny Marr and James – Switching It Up at Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles
The second installment of my somewhat inadvertent “The Sun Never Seems to Set on the British Music Empire Tour”
What a great double bill for fans of BritPop. The guitarist who helped ... Continue Reading →
Billy Bragg Resonates at Fonda Theatre – 40th Anniversary Tour
The third installment of my somewhat inadvertent “The Sun Never Seems to Set on the British Music Empire Tour”
Billy Bragg burst onto the scene by leveraging the DIY ethic of the ... Continue Reading →
Great entertainment & dressy western outfits a hallmark of SHARE’s 71st Boomtown Gala
The classy chorus line of SHARE members started off the entertainment at the 71st annual Boomtown Gala. Fittingly the alluring opening number was “Hey, Big Spender,” with Cy ... Continue Reading →
Let It Be Finally Sees the Full Light of Day
Long considered a documentary of The Beatles at their miserable lowest, we can see more clearly now
Out of circulation for decades, Let It Be finally gets a restored and repositioned ... Continue Reading →
Bob Marley: One Love – The Biopic That Mostly Succeeds
Packing the politics, the history, the love and the music into a couple hours remains a challenge
The interest in legacy music cuts across generations. This is certainly apparent ... Continue Reading →
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