Category: Live Music Coverage

Festival Coverage

Still Got The Buzz – Project Pabst Settles Back into the Rose City | Portland, OR 2025

Portlands’ beloved city festival, Project Pabst, has made a roaring comeback since 2017, with locals and PNW residents coming in for the occasion. Project Pabst has an epic reputation of bringing together the perfect mix of nostalgic legends and contemporary greats, and this years’ installment did just that. Featuring Iggy Pop, Death Cab for Cutie, […]

Aug 3, 2025 Read →

Art

Highlights of SXSW 2025: Celebrating LP Giobbi with Femme House, Performances by SNACKTIME, JMSN plus The Strange and Beautiful Debut of Satellite Ranch

  As a former Austin resident, South by Southwest (SXSW) was the fair I’d had mixed feelings about – event lines could be long, traffic is a nightmare and most of the time, you won’t even get in. Still, on more than a few occasions friends would drive down to visit me from Dallas and […]

Mar 28, 2025 Read →

Electronic

One, Two, Three, Four, Fight: Justice Delivers Explosive Dance Party at Moody Center in Austin, TX [Photos + Review]

On the eve of Austin’s SXSW, the only place to be on Thursday night was bearing witness to the electronic French duo Justice, composed of members Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. Returning with their first album in nearly a decade, Hyperdrama, the synth wave pioneers have spent the majority of that time staying busy […]

Mar 18, 2025 Read →

Guest Posts

Ghosts Of Our Revolutionary Ancestors + Hieroglyphics at Roseland Theater in Portland, OR [Photos by Bear Perry]

Last night Roseland Theater played host to a lineup of legendary hip hop wordsmiths with rose city greats Ghosts of Our Revolutionary Ancestors (GORA) and Oakland heroes Hieroglyphics. Made up of Mic Crenshaw, Libretto, Redray Frazier & DJ Klavical, GORA were a sensational opener for the evening, bringing out Portlands’ old heads for a rare night of cultural indulgence. […]

Mar 15, 2025 Read →

Art

Max Cooper 3D AV Live Set @ The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles | Dark Matter Photos

Returning to The Fonda Theatre for the second year in a row, London-based producer Max Cooper brought his visionary live 3D audio/visual set back to Los Angeles last month on November 14th. Known for his mind-bending journey sets spanning multiple genres, Max Cooper—a producer, DJ, and visual artist of over 15 years—is truly one of […]

Dec 4, 2024 Read →

Electronic

The Marías, Blink 182, Dom Dolla, Chappell Roan, Tyler the Creator and More at Austin City Limits 2024 [Review]

As a former Austin resident, Austin City Limits was always more about the week after than the festival itself, but there were oftentimes I could be swayed into attending by visiting friends just to get mixed into the scene. As one of the largest festivals that continues to grow, ACL can be a massive event […]

Oct 20, 2024 Read →

Live Music Coverage

Psych Rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers Scorch the Scene in Boulder [Show Review + Video]

[cover photo by Harper King courtesy of the band] Hailing from the glorious gutters of L.A. by way of Bloomington, Indiana, psychedelic garage rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers brought their full-time frenzy to the likes of The Fox Theatre last Friday, September 27th. Denver’s own Slow Caves heated up the stage with their melodic […]

Oct 1, 2024 Read →

Live Music Coverage

The Osees Light Up Salt Lake City with Psychedelic Brilliance [Show Review + Film]

On Tuesday night, the quintessential psychedelic band Osees (formerly known as Thee Oh Sees) delivered a performance at Metro Music Hall that will be remembered by Salt Lake City for years to come. Choosing to plunge into the multi-faceted world of psychedelic rock might seem daring, but for a band with such a storied past—tracing […]

Sep 17, 2024 Read →

Live Music Coverage

The Osees Conjure the Best of their Wide-Ranging Sound in Denver [Show Review]

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024, will go forever down in my personal live music history as the first day I had the honor to witness the Osees in all of their psychedelic glory. With such a dynamic evolution through the last two plus decades, I had only a sliver of an idea of what would go […]

Sep 15, 2024 Read →

Live Music Coverage

Natural Child Delivers Real Rock and Roll to Denver’s Bluebird Theater [Show Review]

Rough and tough rock and rollers Natural Child brought their homegrown tunage to the Rocky Mountains last weekend for two nights of genuinely epic music. Hot off a rowdy night at Denver’s Globe Hall on Friday, the quintet brought their feel-good, act-bad shenanigans to East Colfax’s Bluebird Theater on Saturday September 7th — and we […]

Sep 11, 2024 Read →