Summer concert season is winding down and the open air venues have precious few days left in the season but there are still a few gems out there. Most recently Korn visited the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey and they brought along Spiritbox and Gojira to join the fun. Continue reading
Chants of “Dave” for the guitar tech, a crowd-surfing banana, and a discussion of Spiderman’s underwear can only mean one thing; a concert in New York City, and this one was amazing. Horizon Theory, Return To Dust, 10 Years, and Sevendust recently came to The Palladium Times Square in the heart of New York.
Here Comes The Pain, and Slipknot is bringing it along with Orbit Culture and Knocked Loose. The tour came to the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, NJ recently and left everyone stunned.
Albany, New York may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of live music and specifically, Heavy Metal. If you take a look at the history of the MVP Arena which was opened in 1990 as the Knickerbocker Arena, you’ll find a gem of a venue in the New York capital. It opened with a concert by Frank Sinatra and has also played host to The Grateful Dead, Phish, The Rolling Stones, and even Metallica on multiple occasions. Most recently it was visited by a Metal God in the form of Rob Halford with Judas Priest. Continue reading
KMFDM doing it again. This time it was at Brooklyn Bowl in Philadelphia.
One of the more prolific Industrial bands, KMFDM has a reputation for releasing an album every one and a half years and touring in support of that album shortly after that. This year marks the fortieth year of touring and their twenty-third album entitled Let Go (Metropolis Records, read our review here). The band’s longevity can be attributed to their Synthpop-infused Industrial sound and connection with the audience. Band members are often readily accessible to the crowd before and after the show, something that is pretty rare in this day of paid Patreon accounts. Continue reading
Raise your horns. Wednesday 13 is touring with a set of songs by the Murderdolls and Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. Classics like ‘She Was A Teenage Zombie’ and ‘I Love To Say Fuck’ are part of a show that results in a high-energy, stupid fun night. With Black Satellite, Infected Rain, and Gemini Syndrome also playing in support it proves to be a long night full of great music. Continue reading
One down and one to go, another town and one more show. If you are a child of the seventies you probably remember Yes from the album Fragile (Atlantic Records). If you are a child of the eighties you probably remember them from their hit record 90125 (Atco Records). Released in 1983 it contained the classics ‘Leave It’, ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart’, ‘Changes’ and ‘It Can Happen’. It stands as a testament to the band’s prolific catalogue that they didn’t feel a need to include any of these in their set at College Street Music Hall in New Haven, CT when the Classic Tales Of Yes tour came to town.
Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) is one of the great music venues in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Located on Bleeker Street, just a block and a half south of Washington Square Park, it plays host to a wide variety of musical acts ranging in style from Disco to Punk to Hip Hop and some Heavy Metal. Wikipedia notes that the room capacity is 700 but that likely includes a hallway bar and other spaces. In anticipation of a crowd heating the place, the air conditioning is always set on arctic and the room stays fairly comfortable. No food is served there but Bleeker is almost entirely made up of restaurants, so there will be something available for any taste. Something very interesting happened at LPR recently, and three bands rattled the windows of the entire neighborhood for a night.
Something I always do is avoid using “I” in a review. I always avoid talking in the first person and just give a description of the show and let the reader form an opinion. I recently got the opportunity to see Mr. Bungle in Philadelphia and they are no ordinary band so this will not be an ordinary review.
In the thirty-plus years of their existence, Collective Soul has managed to produce more than a few hits and they were on full display as their tour with Rubikon came to the Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem, PA.