WINERY DOGS ‘ELEVATE’ NEW YORK IN U.S. DEBUT
By Michael Lello Photos by Tom Roarty NEW YORK – Partway through The Winery Dogs’ show on Saturday at BB King Blues Club & Grill in Times Square, a woman excitedly told this reviewer, “Write down ...
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BOB DYLAN, WILCO AND MY MORNING JACKET IN CAMDEN
By Michael Lello CAMDEN, N.J. – It’s easy for music fans that missed the 1960s to feel they were shortchanged. Woodstock; the New York folk scene; Monterey Pop; The Allman Brothers, The Band and the...
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ALBUM REVIEW: SPINTO BAND, “COOL COCOON”
There are artists working in the rock and pop worlds that don’t write songs as much as they compose, orchestrate and arrange them. The Spinto Band is one of these acts, placing quintet in rarified a...
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STEVE MARTIN IN WILKES-BARRE
WILKES-BARRE ?Comedian, actor, author, moviemaker and Grammy award-winning musician Steve Martin lost his wallet Tuesday in Wilkes-Barre ?of all places ?while bicycling downtown. The silver-haired Ma...
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TOM PETTY IN SARATOGA, N.Y.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. ? A nostalgic Tom Petty quarterbacked his band into a cover of Paul Revere and the Raiders’ “Not Your Steppin’ Stone,” introducing the ’60s psychedelic tune made popular by The...
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ROLLING STONES IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA ? Mick Jagger slithered off the elaborate Wells Fargo Center’s lips-and-tongue stage set Tuesday night, midway through the first of two Rolling Stones shows in Philly this week. That lef...
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ALBUM REVIEW: JIMMY EAT WORLD — “DAMAGE”
Seven albums into its career, Jimmy Eat World has developed a formula: driving rhythms, with occasional syncopation; crystalline, clanging guitars; and impassioned lyrics and vocals that frequently r...
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TOM KEIFER AT BREW’S BROTHERS WEST
LUZERNE, Pa. – Anyone that assumed Tom Keifer is simply living on his past successes would’ve been proved gravely wrong if they turned up at Brews Brothers West Sunday night, where the Cinderella sing...
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND — “MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY”
When Vampire Weekend burst onto the scene with its self-titled debut in 2008, the wise bet was that the band wouldn’t be able to top or equal that breathtaking effort. But here we are, five years and...
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FLAMING LIPS IN MONTCLAIR, N.J.
By Nikki M. Mascali MONTCLAIR, N.J. – The Wellmont Theatre could possibly be the best backdrop for a night of Flaming Lips music. The cavernous venue, which opened in 1922, has crumbling plaster ami...
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