The Fall Concert Season Is Upon Us

Ah, autumn. The air gets crisp, the days get shorter, temperatures lower and every able-bodied artist worth 30 tickets or more hits the road. Now that the bloated summer concert season is over, hard-working, up-and-coming bands who’ve been toiling to mass indifference in noon slots on side stages everywhere can make their rent playing the healthy […] […]

Live Review: Supergrass at the Avalon, July 12, 2008

Photo by the author Despite overseas success in their native U.K., Supergrass seemed like the punchline to a joke when they were first heard stateside in the mid-90s. With a flip album title, seemingly novelty single, cheeky facial hair and a derivative sound (insert Kinks, The Who, Faces and T. Rex references here), they were by […] […]

LIVE REVIEW: Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s, The Echo, May 24

King Richard: Richard Edwards of Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s photo by the author It was just a few years ago that Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s performed at Spaceland to a partially filled room with an even smaller attentive audience. Perhaps it was weariness from their dogged touring schedule, but though emphatically […] […]