Shonen Knife
Shonen Knife’s performance at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge is a Pop-Rocks fizz of Jap-punk distortions and colorful kitsch. May Terry indulged in the Shonen Knife experience with sushi, Pocky, and some great wok-and-roll music.
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Shonen Knife’s performance at NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge is a Pop-Rocks fizz of Jap-punk distortions and colorful kitsch. May Terry indulged in the Shonen Knife experience with sushi, Pocky, and some great wok-and-roll music.
Ms. Etheridge is all-out solo in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. May Terry forgoes the Mount Airy Casino slots and blackjack tables to rock out at the great summerstage performance.
Margaret Cho
Jenny Lewis never fails to make Orlando, and Jen Cray, feel like giddy little school kids… especially when she brings Speedy Ortiz along for the ride.
FIDLAR and Metz make their Orlando debuts and inspire the crowd to break all the rules. Jen Cray is in the middle of the beautiful madness.
Tampa’s Big Guava Festival puts itself on the sun & sounds map, and wins the heart of Jen Cray.
The Tedeschi Trucks band blew Michelle Wilson away in Melbourne!
Bayou bluesman Tab Benoit and Samantha Fish are a match made in blues heaven, says Michelle Wilson!
After a stubborn illness sidelined the band just as they were about to explode, Screaming Females are back with a killer album and looooong world wide tour. Jen Cray caught their Orlando date.
A short tour of the South brought Against Me through Orlando again. Of course, Jen Cray had to be there!
Lucinda Williams had them dancing in the aisles in Santa Fe!
Jack White gives his new hometown of Nashville an epic show that involved a surprise reunion of The Raconteurs and a duet with a country music legend. Jen Cray drove 10 hours to be there.
of Montreal gets weird at the Social! Relive the crazy with Alexa Harris in this review of the antic-filled, surreal, one-of-a-kind show.
The Big Orlando gave Central Florida fans a music festival in jacket weather. Weezer and Fall Out Boy headlined, but there were a dozen other bands to keep Jen Cray happy all the live long day.
Swedish Folk duo First Aid Kit delivered an impressive performance at The Beacham, in Orlando, where Alexa Harris fell victim to their sweet croon.
James Mann spent a sublime night with John Prine and Jason Isbell.
Jack White plays Jacksonville, FL for the first time ever and gives the sold-out audience, and Jen Cray, a night they won’t soon forget.
Indie-pop band Miniature Tiger’s fun, upbeat, danceable tunes and contagious positivity wowed Alexa Harris at the Social.
12,000+ sweaty fans baked in the sun and bathed in the storm during the highly anticipated grunge era union of Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails at West Palm’s popular outdoor concert venue, but Christopher Long only came to hear one of those bands play.
John Badham’s 1983 future-tech helicopter thriller, Blue Thunder, with its cautionary tale of militarized police and a surveillance state, still resonates decades later.
What if the miracle of sight came with a curse? The Eye builds its horror from that chilling premise.
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.