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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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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CONCERT REVIEW: OLD FARMERS BALL
SCRANTON -- The intention of Old Farmers Ball was not to prove a point. However, a major statement was made Saturday under gray skies and heavy rainstorms: a large-scale grassroots music festival c...
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CONCERT REVIEW: MY MORNING JACKET, BAND OF HORSES IN PHILADELPHIA
IMG_7144a Jim James of My Morning Jacket (File photos by Jason Riedmiller) The Mann Center for the Performing Arts is tucked away in the Cent...
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CONCERT 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...
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