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On April 9, the Two Tours Collide tour stopped at the Maxwell C. King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Florida, for a night celebrating guitar mastery and blues roots. For two months, Samantha Fish’s Paper Doll Tour and Tab Benoit’s I Heart Thunder Tour combine for co-headlining shows without an opener. The show […]

The Neighbourhood turned Minneapolis’ history Armory into a stark, monochrome dreamscape on April 2nd, delivering a sold-out show that felt less like a typical concert and more like a full-on cultural moment. Even as cold rain soaked the city, fans—many young and deeply devoted—queued for hours to claim barricade spots, bringing an energy reminiscent of […]

Ashnikko brought pure, electrified chaos—in the best possible way—to the Palace Theatre in St. Paul on March 31, 2026, lighting up a nearly sold-out, all-ages crowd on the Smoochies tour. The night opened with a short but impactful set from Princess Nokia, immediately setting a bold, high-energy tone. From there, Ashnikko took full command with […]

Forget the sanitized, corporate-sponsored “rock shows” you’re used to; Gogol Bordello just blew the minds and tore the collective throats out of the sold-out Royale Night Club’s attendees in Boston this past Wednesday, March 25th. The undisputed kings of gypsy punk didn’t just show up; they staged a hostile takeover crowd with the momentum of […]

The Motet has, since around the turn of the century, delivered performances that bring out the spirit’s primal boogie nature and provide cathartic healing to even the most skeptical of concertgoers. On Saturday, March 21st, at Portland, Oregon’s The Get Down, a full house of celebrators let loose their love of not only The Motet, […]

Spencer Thomas doesn’t pretend to have invented himself out of thin air. In fact, he’ll tell you the opposite—plainly, even cheerfully. “If you like Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, you’ll probably like my music,” he says. “I’m pretty shameless about that.” It’s not false modesty. It’s a working philosophy, one that has come into sharper focus […]

The power of a massive riff and blaring guitars has quietly been pushed to the margins in recent years. Artists like Big Thief, Hozier, Mt. Joy, and Noah Kahan can draw thousands while keeping the volume dialed back and the distortion tucked away. But what the world really needs right now is more loudness. Enter […]

In its 23rd consecutive year, the Portland Jazz Festival is in full swing, bringing 60 events to 30 venues in Oregon’s Rose City over a 10 day period. On Saturday, March 7th, the festival showcased two luminaries of the electric bass at Revolution Hall. First up was Mohini Dey, a 29-year-old bass phenom from Mumbai, […]

Rock n’ Roll, at its core, is a collaborative event. It is the process by which separate minds become a collective consciousness for the purpose of self-expression through stadium-sized guitar riffs and explosive vocal performances. Odd Marshall, the rocking singer/songwriter, is taking the collaborative core of rock music to new heights on Seconds. The artist’s […]

Fifty years together. More than 20 million albums sold. Over 15 records packed with guitar-driven Southern rock and FM staples like “Hold On Loosely,” “Caught Up In You,” “If I’d Been The One,” “Back Where You Belong,” and “Second Chance.” 38 Special stands as living proof that there’s power in numbers. Formed in 1974, the […]

Arguably, the world doesn’t need another song about New York City any more than the Red Hot Chili Peppers need another love letter to California. Still, NYC remains an asphalt jungle—its skyline boxed in by concrete, its daily rhythm a relentless hustle to survive. Unless you’re Aaron Judge, it’s not a place for the faint […]

On Friday, February 27, The Mother Hips rolled into Mississippi Studios and found a room primed for a dose of sun-soaked West Coast rock. Long synonymous with the freewheeling spirit of the Golden State, the Bay Area lifers have spent more than three decades refining their ragged-yet-robust sound, building a loyal following far beyond California’s […]

There are only a handful of artists who can speak to the moment just before their star starts to rise. Is it the fulfilling spectacle of years of hard work culminating in a dream come true, or simply a reminder that the journey is just beginning? Does a musician even sense that stardom is around […]

Love is a tricky thing to get a hold of, and even when it’s in your grasp, the complexity of it all forces a loose, slippery grip. Once forged by time and memory, love becomes a solid stone to rest upon, but the moments of its creation can be among the most confusing and, ironically, […]

Reverends’ new album, Sunsight, Sunclipse, is its most vivid and unguarded statement yet—a record that most maturely and confidently blends Americana, shoegaze, psych and cosmic country. Fronted by singer and songwriter Dandy Lee Strickland—with Kyle Jones on drums and Andy Watts and Matt Boehnlein on bass and guitars—the Atlanta trio has carved out its own […]

While commercial air travel is an easy punchline on the comedy circuit, others approach it with far more gravity—among them Paula Boggs, who knows the terrain from every angle. “Flying in 2025 is not for the faint of heart,” Boggs says. “Between DOGE, the firing of air traffic controllers, helicopter crashes, delayed or canceled flights, […]

While commercial air travel is an easy punchline on the comedy circuit, others approach it with far more gravity—among them Paula Boggs, who knows the terrain from every angle. “Flying in 2025 is not for the faint of heart,” Boggs says. “Between DOGE, the firing of air traffic controllers, helicopter crashes, delayed or canceled flights, […]

Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country stopped by Portland, Oregon’s Revolution Hall on Friday, February 6th as part of their Horizons Winter Tour, which kicked off in late January and runs through early April.  The band was firing on all cylinders, feeding off the audience and using their songs to explore and improvise. There was a big […]

A benefit concert was held at First Avenue in Minneapolis on January 30th, with 100 percent of the proceeds donated to the families of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, who were killed in recent ICE-related incidents that intensified tensions across Minneapolis. The show sold out within minutes, despite temperatures hovering between six and eight degrees—an […]

When the lights dimmed at the House of Blues in Boston on January 19th, the air was thick with a specific kind of anticipation, the kind that only follows a cultural icon like Bill Murray. The 75-year-old living legend didn’t burst onto the stage with a monologue or a “Ghostbusters” catchphrase; instead, he slipped quietly […]