Category: Reviews

Hot doesn’t begin to describe it. When I left my house around 5 p.m. and headed toward Riverbend Music Center for Five Finger Death Punch, the temperature was pushing 100…

There are early shows, and then there are festival days. Saturday started for me around 11:00 a.m., when I left the house and headed toward West Chester for the third…

Some concerts are planned weeks in advance. Others come together with a simple phone call from a good friend. After spending most of the day in the recording studio, I…

Some concert reviews begin when the house lights go down. This one started somewhere around 7 a.m. in Kentucky, while I was still wiping the sleep from my eyes and…

It was one of those nights where live music fans had way too many choices. There were major concerts happening all over the Midwest, but when Matthew Fritsch reached out…

Some concert nights begin with hours of anticipation. Others begin with a sprint through the rain carrying thousands of dollars’ worth of camera gear. Saturday night landed somewhere in the…

Some nights start with chaos before you ever walk through the gate. I left the house later than planned after my wife got home from work, and my daughters Bella,…

Sometimes the best nights aren’t the ones you’ve had circled on the calendar for months. Sometimes they’re the last-minute text, the quick decision from your living room couch, and the…

Some bands rely on volume. Some rely on spectacle. The Electric Indigo relies on feel. As the direct support for The Summit Thursday night at Southgate House Revival in Newport,…

Opening a show is one of the toughest jobs in live music. You’re walking onto a stage where most of the audience bought tickets to see someone else. The room…