What to say about Joy Division? What to say about New Order?? What to say about one night of both separated into two sets by one of the bands’ co-founding members?!?! Post punk icon Peter Hook does just that, now playing his darkwave hits alongside “The Light” — a detail I find so delightfully cheeky. […]
Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California got to host the last USA tour date for Thirty Seconds to Mars — sorry Leto fans in the states, you missed your chance. Lucky for you, Top Shelf Music was there to capture some photos to help your imagination run wild due to no reviews allowed for this […]
If you have come across this article, you are most likely a Messenger. This means I can trust you with this information. I had the privilege to witness the Starset Society give us a live demonstration in Detroit, MI. It is imperative that you know what I learned, so you can be ready, too. Throughout […]
Jelly Roll came to Sacramento at the Golden 1 Center on his Beautifully Broken Tour on Wednesday, September 4th. The sold-out show was incredible, with a few surprises! The night began with Alexandra Kay from Waterloo, Illinois. Her heartfelt songs and beautiful voice got the audience amped up and excited for the night, opening with her […]
On a beautiful summer evening in Costa Mesa, the Pacific Amphitheatre played host to a double bill of 90s alternative rock royalty. Toad the Wet Sprocket and Counting Crows took the stage on August 31st, 2024, delivering a night of great music. I typically do not review shows like this — as my passion as […]
Ever want to just lie down on the floor and sink into a black hole… but in the best way possible? If you were there for Chevelle’s latest tour, you would have experienced just that. I was shocked when I saw Return to Dust hit the stage. These guys, even though they are young and […]
On August 23rd, Iration headlined the first of two nights at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, California, supported by Artikal Sound System, DENM, and Pepper. It was one of the last shows of the season for 2024’s OC Fair Summer Concert Series. And Artikal Sound System started things off for the night. At the start […]
What’s better than Black Sabbath? Black Sabbath in the form of McDonald’s characters, greasing classic Sabbath songs with new lyrics aimed at the demise of the fast food industry. That’s what. In fact, it’s been 10 years since Mac Sabbath introduced the world to the Drive-thru metal genre… Oh how fast a decade of finger-lickin’ […]
It was a beautiful evening at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA on Sunday, August 25th. I was honored to photograph Kings Of Leon for their Can We Please Have Fun World Tour. And a lot of fun was had, especially watching the audience dance to opening band, Phantogram. Hailing from Greenwich, New York, the […]
Human Musical Group Sensations Glass Animals recently hit the road hot on the heels of the release of their fourth studio album, I LOVE YOU SO F***ING MUCH. Back bigger and better than ever, I was lucky enough to catch the band on two stops of the tour — once in Chicago and the next […]
There’s the Beatles… and then there’s everything else. This is the mantra I have lived by my entire life. With two of the Fab Four already taken from this planet, Paul and Ringo are all that’s left for me to catch a glimpse of a band that changed music history—and parts of US history—as we […]
Who says you have to take it easy on a Sunday evening? Definitely not Steve Miller Band, Journey, or Def Leppard. Eagerness filled Inglewood Sunday evening as the surrounding streets of the Sofi Stadium began filling with traffic. The variety of people wearing every band’s merch was astonishing… it was beginning to look like an epic […]
My first memory of hearing Green Day dates back to my teenage years during an after-school track practice: I distinctly remember the guitar riff from “Brain Stew” playing and from that moment, I was hooked. Back then, the radio would play the song at least five times a day, always followed by “Jaded”, which — […]
On August 21st, Squeeze and Boy George headlined at the Pacific Amphitheatre as part of the OC Fair Concert Series for 2024 — hosted by none other than renowned KROQ radio deejay, Richard Blade. It was great seeing Richard interacting with fans in the crowd and the interesting 80s music facts about the bands he […]
The Smashing Pumpkins made a tour stop in St. Louis on a beautiful August evening and showed the packed house that they’ve still got it. This is a band that has been innovating on what rock music can sound like for multiple decades, formed over 35 years ago by frontman Billy Corgan. When a band […]
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