Steve covets hot espresso, cold pilsner, and great record albums. His background in radio, indie labels, and journalism helps him to pretend he knows something about music. Also, he eats his pizza with a fork.
U2’s performance at Sam Boyd Stadium was a spectacle that satisfied its most eager fans, as well as people who barely recognized one song. Here are 10 things that made it great: 10. The Crowd: How often can...
The slumbering beast of rock-n-roll's yesteryear is slowing coming to life.
Allegedly.
Guns-n-Roses (or perhaps more academically the "Axl Rose Band") will be taking stages in Asia and Canada to finally support...
With every passing day, we music fans as a whole march steadily away from our old physical media (particularly CDs) and towards a Jetson-esque future where all media is consumed digitally. For the sake of convenience and shelf space...
Much like their forefathers The Grateful Dead, Phish’s finest musical moments inarguably take place in crowded concert halls…not recording studios. But also like The Dead, the band has quietly amassed an underrated catalog of recorded work...
Photo from the excellent Flickr set by eticketride. Call it the “accidental review.” I’m loathe to begin any music story with a personal anecdote, but in this case, I feel I have to make an exception...
There's something about Felix Da Housecat's sound that works perfectly here in Vegas; a certain carefree decadence that is difficult to quantify, but makes perfect sense when it enters your ears. Lucky for us locals, the man himself...
In the (not very) time honored tradition of bands like Dread Zeppelin, Beatallica is an ungodly hybrid of two of rock music's most beloved acts: The Beatles and Metallica. At first blush it sounds like a joke gone too...
For weeks now, the unwashed masses have sat red-eyed around an animated map of the United States at Phish.com watching daily as more states were eliminated from contention by boats, hot air balloons, giant drills and other esoteric...
When Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto residency at The Palms kicked off last fall, it single-handedly saved a local dance scene whose beats mostly came from a life-support machine. ICE had melted, Empire Ballroom fizzled out unceremoniously, and local...
Over the weekend a newly reunited Phish wrapped up the first leg of its sold out summer tour in Alpine Valley, WI. Playing like it has a new lease on life, the band is scouring every corner of its repertoire...