On July 13th, West Des Moines fans gathered at the Val Air Ballroom for an unforgettable night of international metal, with face-melting riffs as hot as the heat outside. With support from Entheos and Crystal Lake, Jinjer’s Duél North America Tour emphasized technical precision, emotional intensity, and sheer live power. Fans buzzed in anticipation for […]
There are some summer nights you wish you could keep in your pocket forever. Warm weather, live music, your favorite people, and not a single thing to worry about. That’s exactly what Iration has does to their show audiences. To kick off the OC Fairgrounds summer season, the Iration boys brought that vibe to the […]
Let’s get weird — it’s Les Claypool night! Marketed as “Claypool Gold”, Les Claypool brought not one, not two, but three of his bands to town on June 1st, complete with the prodigal son Sean Lennon to boot. The place to be was Gallagher Square at Petco Park, home of the Padres, smack dab in […]
I walked into Bridgestone Arena genuinely excited this past week. For starters, it would be my first time seeing openers Nova Twins and, while I’ve had a few opportunities to catch their shows in the past, I’ve never made it, so I was thrilled to finally see them live on a big stage. Second, I […]
Acoustic shows belong to the kind of people who know every single word. Satsang fans tend to be that way: deeply loyal humans that are drawn in by music that feels less like entertainment and more like a conversation that they desperately need to have. This particular occasion gave them plenty to feel good about, […]
On the evening of May 27th, alt rock band The Last Dinner Party brought their From The Pyre Tour to The Fox Theater in Oakland. From The Pyre is the sophomore album from the London-based quintet, hot off the heels from their debut album Prelude to Ecstacy, featuring their breakout single “Nothing Matters”. Chances are, if you listened to […]
Even though I love hip hop music, especially underground and independent hip hop, I rarely ever actually go to a hip hop show. Nothing against it — it just isn’t really something I do. But when some of the most successful independent hip hop artists of all time come to my town, you know I’m […]
This past Friday night, I had the absolute pleasure of heading to one of the coolest music venues in the country. I’m talking, of course, about The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee. The Caverns is a unique venue in that it is essentially a cave, converted into an amazing music space. When I arrived, the staff […]
It’s so not every day that you get to go to a concert where you can bang your head, scream, mosh… and also worship Jesus. Tonight was one of those nights and, honestly, I desperately needed it. I went to Detroit for Demon Hunter — a band long loved within the Christian rock arena. But […]
If I am being honest, I had pretty low expectations this past Tuesday for Tech N9ne’s show at Marathon Music Works in Nashville, TN. It wasn’t that I thought the music would be bad; I certainly know Tech N9ne is amazing. I think it was more a combination of life burnout and the fact that […]
I’ve always held firm to the belief that if a band moves you, truly moves you, you owe it to yourself to see them more than once. Some artists just need to be witnessed repeatedly; each performance peels back a layer of something you didn’t know you needed. I feel like bands like Phish, The […]
On Sunday, midwestern sad rock loyalists came out in droves to the sold-out Val Air Ballroom in West Des Moines, Iowa for DAYSEEKER’s The Pale Moonlight Tour. Supported by Northlane, Wind Walkers, and sace6, the night was full of sick riffs and crying while dancing. Families dotted the crowd, proving there really is no better […]
There was no letup of aggression the entire night of The Spring Horizons Tour, when four bands came together in Royal Oak, Michigan. Now, when I think of ‘spring horizons’, I think of nice relaxing vibes… these bands were anything but. The first band onstage was Heavensgate; you would honestly think that you were at […]
I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t walk into Marathon Music Works on May 1st as an Ashnikko fan. I’d heard a couple of tracks floating around, enough to recognize the name, but I was there primarily as a photographer. I’d seen images of her online: the electric blue hair, the theatrical costuming, the almost […]
Some concerts are performances; others are spectacles. And then there’s Puscifer, a beautifully strange collision of theater, psychedelia, performance art, and razor-sharp musicianship that feels deeply unserious and profoundly intentional at the same time. At Red Rocks Amphitheatre, under towering red monoliths and a sold-out Colorado sky packed with more than 10,000 people, Puscifer built […]
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