Upcoming/Recent Shows

[Nee Lewman]

Loamlands and Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires put on one hell of a show last night:

 

[Teeeee]

Live albums are pointless – so why do bands insist on releasing them still?

What a shit article by a fucking grump.

It's also that this article has been written every few months by different people. And no one brings anything new to the table.

 

[marshall]

Couple shots from Big Thief in Detroit last night. They sounded great. There are moments when the band just stops and stares at Adrianne in awe. Pretty powerful.

 

[Nathaniel.D]

Working a few stages for a smooth jazz festival in Delaware this weekend. Didn't exactly realize there was a huge market for that. In Delaware. But I was wrong. From what I've heard so far with sound checks, these are some damn fantastic musicians, just not playing the genre for me.

Still not my favorite genre by a long shot, but some of these bands are tight and funky. Currently waiting on Brian Culbertson's band to wrap up so we can tear it all down again and set up for tomorrow's closing set!

 

[Renée]

Dennis DeYoung (Performing the music of Styx)

Warner Theatre - Washington, DC - October 19, 2019




As I'm sure many of you know, Dennis DeYoung was the original lead singer, principal songwriter and visionary of classic rock legends Styx. Styx still tours, but their poor soundalike and ignorance of DeYoung's importance left me wanting to see the lead man himself.

And here we are! Hooooly shit, I've never seen a 72 year old man jumping and prancing around a stage like this before! Incredible singing, awesome crowd interaction, and "bust your motherfucking gut laughing" jokes between songs. His band members were incredible! Stunning keyboard/synthesizer work, amazing guitar shredding, and even lovely backing vocals from Dennis' wife, Suzanne!

Setlist wise, we were treated to hearing Styx's 1977 hit album The Grand Illusion in its entirety, followed by other great Styx hits! And as a special treat, just for this show, he also performed "Desert Moon", one of his solo hits of the 80s! This was Dennis DeYoung's first public solo show in DC, according to the man himself!

Absolutely stunning show! If you want the REAL Styx experience, go see Dennis DeYoung! More pics are on my Instagram (@sjettfolk) as always!

Setlist: Dennis DeYoung Setlist at Warner Theatre, Washington

 

[cul8er]

Sleater - Kinney brought energy and was a fantastic show! They played most of the new album and several old ones.

 

[bfly]

Still not my favorite genre by a long shot, but some of these bands are tight and funky. Currently waiting on Brian Culbertson's band to wrap up so we can tear it all down again and set up for tomorrow's closing set!

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lol that would be a ProOne saxophone I set up in the hands of the gent in the newsboy cap

 

[Poly-Rythmo]

Dave has made one of my favourite (possibly *the* favourite) album of this year with Psychodrama. And now he's given me one of my best concerts of 2019 too. Possibly the first time I've felt so old at a concert - it felt like everyone was 20, if not 25, years younger than me - and my ability to rap fast out loud isn't what it used to be but it was great fun.

 

[Nathaniel.D]

lol that would be a ProOne saxophone I set up in the hands of the gent in the newsboy cap

There were SOOOO many saxes here. I think the count was 14 on our stage over 5 sets. The closing jam set had 6 sax players on stage at any one time.

 

[bfly]

There were SOOOO many saxes here. I think the count was 14 on our stage over 5 sets. The closing jam set had 6 sax players on stage at any one time.

well I think I only worked on the one that was in that dude's hands, but I'm not surprised. smooth jazz and saxophone go hand in hand.

 

[tvham]

Black Pumas w Neal Francis at the Independent, San Francisco

One of my favorite shows ever, where the following happened:

- I met Eric Burton pre-show and had a quick chat and took a pic
- Neal Francis was amazing
- Black Pumas were amazing
- Eric handed me the setlist as they were walking offstage before the encore
- I was pulled up on stage along with 5-6 female fans to dance during the encore (hopefully no video of this exists!)
- I met Neal after the show and got a 7" signed w a cool inscription
- Eric and Adrian signed my setlist

I mean, those are my specific highlights and I'm not even getting in to how energetic and awesome the band sounded. I can't wait to see them again!

 

[GritNGlitter]

 

[djdavedk]

Saturday night should be smokin’ hot!

24-hour discount code dropped tix below 20 each.

 

[ayayrawn]

Rapsody and KRIT were dope affffff

 

[Ghost]

Words can not describe but @tvham hit the nail on the head. I was absolutely blown away by this show and was lucky enough to be front row. I got to shout the lyrics to the song into the mic and bump Eric’s fist mid concert. I’m giddy right now. One of my favorite shows ever and shouts out to the people who tracked me down after the show to give me the set list they thought I deserved lol. This is my first set list ever, guess it starts a new collection.

 

[JohnPeelIsMyCoPilot]

More Sleater-Kinney pics. They blew the roof off the place in Atlanta last night. What a gift to still have them around.

 

[Joe Mac]

Live albums are pointless – so why do bands insist on releasing them still?

What a shit article by a fucking grump.

I love live gigs but I’m on his side with live albums, very few that I like. That said he’s been at NME since I was a teenager and I think his role now is as a sort of bizarre ironic grumpy old man.

 

[Endtro]

Explosions in the Sky from last night. What a show! It was really fun to see them go back through their entire catalog.

 

[Teeeee]

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Explosions in the Sky from last night. What a show! It was really fun to see them go back through their entire catalog.

OMG! I didn't know they were on tour! They are one of my fave acts to see live. I must look into this.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Kishi was amazing as always: