AN INTERVEIW WITH CAROLINE SMITH
Emerging from the Minneapolis music scene, Caroline Smith quickly found an audience with a quavering and soulful singing style that has drawn comparisons to Joanna Newsom and Leslie Feist. With her b...
ReadmoreMY BACK PAGES: SOCIAL DISTORTION
My Back Pages is a series that explores our relationships with the music we grew up with. Social Distortion is the subject of this installment. It was the middle of 1992, and I was just beginning my ...
ReadmoreCONCERT REVIEW: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, BEACON THEATRE
By Nikki M. Mascali You don’t just go see a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert. You experience it, and the music permeates you like the sweat that clung to singer Cave’s crisp white shirt by show’s ...
ReadmoreMY BACK PAGES: RUSH
My Back Pages is a series that explores our relationships with the music we grew up with. Canadian hard rock trio Rush is the subject of the first installment. We have friends that we talk to all the...
ReadmoreCONCERT REVIEW: WILCO IN COOPERSTOWN
Ivory rags hang from the stage like chains of clouds. A Belgian style farmhouse is visible through the strands of swaying rags at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y. Tents dot the rolling hills li...
ReadmorePHOTO GALLERY: HIGHWAY 81 REVISITED LAUNCH PARTY
Photos by Jason Riedmiller On Saturday, These United States, Pappy and Mike Quinn performed to a packed house at the Highway 81 Revisited Launch Party at The Bog in Scranton. If you were there and wo...
ReadmoreH81R SETS LAUNCH PARTY
The recently created Northeastern Pennsylvania-based music website Highway 81 Revisited will host a launch party Saturday, May 14, at The Bog (341 Adams Ave., Scranton) featuring performances by These...
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