Tag: rock show

  • Happy Elke Day! 

    Happy Elke Day! 

    Elke Celebrates Her Record Release as Meg Elsier Opens  As I stood outside The Blue Room, I felt my body battling both the 25-degree weather and the sheer excitement of the show that I was going to see.  Tonight, attached to Jack White’s Third Man Records, the shivering crowd was going to be let in…

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  • A Space Disco with The Weird Sisters 

    A Space Disco with The Weird Sisters 

    They are the self-described “Dance Commanders” and that aptly chronicles the status of their compilations.  Funk has collided with electronica and slammed danced with jazz and soul with punk-EDM and psychedelia ploughing into the onslaught. Are you getting it yet?  You will just have to listen for yourselves.  In fact, I implore you to dive into the…

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  • Catchfire takes you to the ‘Wild Side’

    Catchfire takes you to the ‘Wild Side’

    The rattling echo from the burning words and instrumentals stays with the listener even when the song is silenced.  It is now out there in the ethos for others to discover- for that is all that we can do.  We create and place our art in the world for the scavengers to find.  This track…

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  • Bourbon and Beyond: Days 3 & 4 

    Bourbon and Beyond: Days 3 & 4 

    Days One and Two of Bourbon & Beyond were highly organized and very strict when it came to the front gates.  The event was constantly posting on their socials and emailing out rules and regulations for standards that they wanted upheld throughout the long weekend.  You could only bring in chairs if you had a…

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  • Bourbon & Beyond: Day Two

    Bourbon & Beyond: Day Two

    So now we reside in Day Two of Bourbon & Beyond. Day one nearly killed me as I realized that 10 hours standing in the sun after driving three hours to get here was too long of a day for this 50-year-old. There is nowhere to hide at this festival.  There are tents around the…

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  • Bourbon & Beyond: Day One

    Bourbon & Beyond: Day One

    Here I am, in my hotel room, just north of Louisville, Kentucky in Sellersberg, Indiana pondering what I have seen over the last two days.  It’s Bourbon & Beyond and it’s a lot.  According to local news sources and the Bourbon & Beyond website the festival is bringing in $12.5 million dollars in local revenue…

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  • Here We Go! 

    Here We Go! 

    As a wanna be skater and surfer Jane’s songs were the soundtrack of so many skating/surfing videos in the mid to late 80s that they became ingrained in my subconscious. The Hard Rock Hotel in South Florida was the backdrop for this latest adventure. You probably have seen the giant guitar shaped hotel in commercials…

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  • We Had the Time of Our Lives

    We Had the Time of Our Lives

    Green Day headlines their Savior’s Tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Linda’s The last time I went to see Green Day it was in September of 2021 in Seattle, Washington.  We were still coming out of pandemic and the world was different.  This was the first concert I was able to attend…

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