Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings 01.29.11 Count Basie Theatre, New Jersey
The Daptone Soul Revue came to Red Bank on 1/29, and a packed house braved the winter weather to warm up next to Sharon Jones’
Cold War Kids 01.25.11 Amoeba Records Los Angeles, California
Cold War Kids took some time (a winter in Nashville with Jacquire King) and returned with What’s Mine is Yours after an underwhelming last album
Fitz & The Tantrums 01.19.11 Bowery Ballroom NYC
Fitz & The Tantrums stuck their flag into a corner of New York City and made themselves right at home
Gregg Allman ‘Low Country Blues’
True to the laid-back Georgian jellyroll, the LP boasts devil bleeding blues covers from Otis Rush, Skip James, and Muddy Waters
Fitz & The Tantrums ‘More Soul Than The Devil Could Buy’
Fitz and the Tantrums ringleader Michael Fitzpatrick retells the unbelievable, knuckle-gripping journey that he and the Tantrums have been on in the past year
Little Dragon 01.07.11 Natural History Museum Los Angeles, California
Little Dragon kicked off the National History Museum’s season of First Fridays with their brand of undeniably infectious, electro-tribal grooves
Soulive ‘A Day in the Life of Neal Evans’
Soulive keyboardist Neal Evans reflects on the path which led to the doorstep of a new generation of hipsters hell-bent on the thrill of live
The Revivalists ‘Musicians at Play’
Ed Williams of The Revivalists sounds off on song lyrics, the art of ‘brilliantivity’, and what’s next for these New Orleans natives
Justin Townes Earle 12.18.10 Webster Hall NYC
Justin Townes Earle warmed the blood of this unsuspecting patron at Webster Hall on a cold Saturday with rather introspective analytical banter and pure Nashville
Tame Impala 12.15.10 Echoplex | Los Angeles, California
Tame Impala has built an international audience in its short time touring but they’ve received a particularly warm western welcome this year, playing sold out
Liz Phair 12.12.10 Maxwell’s Hoboken, New Jersey
Liz Phair, the grungy, gritty woman with the primadonna face owned the room at Maxwell’s in Hoboken in support of her self-released album Funstyle
Freelance Whales ‘Subway Grandstanding’
Freelance Whales guitarist Kevin Read weighs in on Weathervanes and rock stardom as his tour van rumbled up California’s 5 freeway
