‘JUST LIKE NEW YORK CITY’: DEAD & COMPANY AT CITI FIELD
Photos by Angelo Santoro FLUSHING, N.Y. — There’s something to be said for ending your career while your skills are at their peak, guaranteeing you won’t have a chance to sully your scorecard. Jerr...
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INDIGO GIRLS THRILL LOYAL CROWD AT KIRBY CENTER WITH WIDE-RANGING SET
Photos by Pati Bobeck WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- The excitement was palpable in the well-lit lobby. When the house lights flickered, groups of people started cheering. That’s the positive energy the Indi...
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ANDERS OSBORNE & AMERICAN BABIES AT CAPITOL THEATER (CONCERT REVIEW and PHOTOS)
By Brittany Boote/ Photos by Jason Riedmiller Port Chester, New York in the late winter is as cold as it sounds. After a relaxing and scenic two-hour drive, I arrived in this small town about 40 mi...
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM IN THE POCONOS WITH MOE.
By Michael Lello Photos by Pati Bobeck Bands like moe. don’t follow the album-tour-album-tour cycle. They are live acts first that happen to release studio albums. But their new album “No Guts, ...
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MODEST MOUSE BLENDS QUIRKY WITH CATCHY AT STEELSTACKS
By Michael Lello Photos by Jesse Faatz BETHLEHEM, Pa. – The best way to describe a Modest Mouse show, when it is at its best, is organized chaos. Band members switching instruments so frequently t...
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ESCOVEDO AND THE SENSITIVE BOYS DELIVER DARK BRILLIANCE
By Michael Lello WILKES-BARRE – When you hear certain songs, you can also hear the compositional process, the structure and the intent. Here’s the verse, there’s the hook, here’s the bridge and chor...
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JOAN OSBORNE’S SIMPLE AND DIRECT KIRBY CENTER OUTING
By Michael Lello Photos by Jesse Faatz WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- Just a day after the release of her ninth album, “Love and Hate,” musical chameleon Joan Osborne continued the FM Kirby Center’s “Live f...
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THE HOLD STEADY’S ‘MASSIVE NIGHT’ IN ITHACA
By Michael Lello ITHACA, N.Y. – At first glance, it seemed like a glorified dive bar where your elbows stick to the tables and the décor includes a Jagermeister banner and dartboard might not befit...
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KELLER WILLIAMS ENLIVENS SOLD-OUT JIM THORPE CROWD
By Michael Lester Photos by Jesse Faatz Keller Williams literally does it all musically on stage. Plays guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. Unlike most performers, he also takes requests during h...
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ROBYN HITCHCOCK CAPTIVATES HARRISBURG AUDIENCE
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- If there is a perfect place to see Robyn Hitchcock, it would have to be in an intimate bar with décor favoring tasteful cartoon nudity and equipped with a stage bathed in pinkish li...
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