Category: LIVE REVIEWS

Have you ever witnessed a more smiling Nick Cave—his Bad Seeds, too—than you have during his 2025 tour for latest

Lucy Dacus is the sound of young love. I know this because as soon as Dacus—one-time Philadelphian, one-time boygenius—began to

To the accompaniment of a chamber section that sounded like it was sliding off the Titanic, a cool-blue guitarist with

Beth Gibbons ended her engrossing set at the Met with a giddy little jump, a rapid, enthusiastic wave to the

The security of a hometown show, even a place where you haven’t lived since your teens, is a downright winsome

Patterson Hood and Lydia Loveless at the Sellersville Theater, Sellersville, Pa. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Stereophonics at the Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, N.Y. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

Basia Bulat and Mick Flannery at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Kim Deal at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park, N.J. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy And Friends Play R.E.M.’s Fables Of The Reconstruction at Union Transfer, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris

Like the Grateful Dead, its offshoot Dead & Company and its further-out ancillary jam-byproduct Phish, Kraftwerk has forever had a

In Memory Of Dickey Betts with Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and more at the Macon City Auditorium, Macon,

Drive-By Truckers came into their own in audacious fashion with 2001’s Southern Rock Opera. Originally self-released, their third LP was two-disc,

Frank Black at Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, N.Y. Photos by Wes Orshoski.