This was a special afternoon. It was Josh Ritter’s birthday and the entire crowd serenaded him with “Happy Birthday” before the band started (his reaction is captured in the 3rd photo below). This was also the first concert for his adorable 3-year-old daughter. Last Friday’s Free at Noon was a […]
A new indie kid’s song popped up into my inbox late last night. It was from an artist I’d covered once or twice in the past but despite my familiarity, didn’t have the highest of hopes for, which makes what would happen next even more surprising. A negative bias will […]
Do you like Billy Joel, Ben Folds and, also, the beeps and blips of modern pop music? Well boy o’ boy do I have a band and a new album for you to hear. I’ve long been a fan of Jukebox the Ghost, a District by way of Philly trio, […]
Hand numbered and signed by the poster artist Nicholas Boyle, this gorgeous vintage concert poster is from an epic Bob Dylan show in Paris with Van Morrison in 1998. You want it? Of course you do! This beauty will look great framed on any wall in your music room. Approximate […]
I go to concerts by myself. Alone in a crowd of a thousand. Except for this one guy who I met and too quickly lost. This is the story of the friend I almost made.
It had to be in the fall. The year? That I know for certain: 1993. I was 17. I had graduated, barely, from my college prep high school back in the spring and was now the only one out of an 82 man graduating class not sitting in a college […]
Porn! No, no, not porn, or porn music, but surely the term adult music is chuckle-worthy, right? I didn’t dive into too much new adult music this year, a fact that disturbs me greatly. I’m not going to dwell on it because it makes me feel old, cranky, and old […]
