The Coverups at the Ivy Room
Not-so-secret-anymore Green Day side project “The Coverups” played at the Ivy Room in Albany, California on March 5th.
Thurston Moore live in San Francisco
Alt rock icon Thurston Moore performed in San Francisco and our man Aaron Rubin captured all the action. Check it out!
Celebrating David Bowie – Review
Celebrating David Bowie – Review Earl Slick Featuring musicians from different eras of David Bowie’s ever-evolving career, the Celebrating David Bowie tour did more than pay tribute to the missing legend in Las Vegas. As each song unfolded throughout the night, the band’s joyous performance offered a form of musical catharsis to the audience. Anchored…
Shopping – The Official Body (Review)
Shopping – The Official Body (Review) On the cusp of stardom in the early 80s, Duran Duran’s Simon LeBon famously quipped “We want to be the band to dance to when The Bomb drops.” Fast-forward to 2018 and Shopping have perfected that mission statement on The Official Body. Produced by Edwyn Collins, the band mixes…
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending
This album is absolutely amazing.
Michael Nesmith live in San Francisco
The legendary Mike Nesmith of the Monkees played a rare gig in San Francisco on January 28, 2018 and was joined by surprise guest Ben Gibbard. Our man Aaron Rubin was on the scene with his trusty camera.
Now Hear This! (January 2018)
Now Hear This! (January 2018) The Grammy’s are over. The popular kids won a lot of awards while we tried not to fall asleep. Here’s some new music that is worth your time in the latest edition of Now Hear This! Saxon – They Played Rock And Roll The world has gone to hell since…
Fall Out Boy – M A N I A
Fall Out Boy – M A N I A The new Fall Out Boy is titled M A N I A and the all-caps, shouting-in-your-face title might be the most subtle part of the entire record. Arriving with an album cover that looks like the set from The 1975’s recent videos, FOB breathlessly cram every…
Jack Antonoff, my Pretend Best Friend
There is little I could say about Jack Antonoff that has not already been said.
First Listen?!? – The Who’s ‘Tommy’
Ask my music-centric friends and they will tell you that I have some stupefying blind spots when it comes to the rock-n-roll canon. It wasn’t until a few months ago that I learned that Joe Walsh was in a band named James Gang which even had a song (“Funk #49”) that I knew. I had…