Words and photos covered for New Noise Magazine. Original posting can be seen here complete photo gallery below. Hot Water Music plus Bane plus small rooms plus no barricade equals a recipe for the best show experience. I can’t recall if these two bands ever toured together, let alone if they did, if a barricade was in… Read More Bane / Hot Water Music / Spaced – Williams Center – Rutherford, NJ – 11/8/25
Right before COVID broke out, Joshua Radin announced a tour that was to hit my hometown of Bethlehem, PA, but as we all know COVID cancelled all tours, among other things. Since then Joshua Radin has gone on tour, but nothing close to where I lived at the time, until this tour, which is in… Read More Joshua Radin / Brendan James – South Orange Performing Arts Center – South Orange, NJ – 10/16/25
As Musikfest winds down, the best way to end the festival is with a Musikfest staple, The Slicked Up 9’s. As far as I can remember, every year The Slicked Up 9’s play towards the end of Musikfest and can be seen in front of Hotel Bethlehem for two days with about three hour set… Read More The Slicked Up 9’s – Musikfest – Bethlehem, PA – 8/9/25
Words and photos covered for New Noise Magazine. Original posting can be seen here complete photo gallery below. What better way to wind down the summer months than seeing the almighty Descendents as their summer tour comes to an end at the new Archer Music Hall venue in Allentown, PA. This was a quick month-long tour that… Read More Descendents / Teen Mortgage / Liquid Mike – Archer Music Hall – Allentown, PA – 8/8/25
If there is any concert to see this summer, just go and buy tickets for “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Bigger And Weirder Tour. Don’t even think twice, and if you have kids bring them along too because from experience, they will love it. I am not saying this because I’ve been a fan of Weird Al… Read More “Weird Al” Yankovic ‘The Bigger & Weirder Tour’ – Bethel Woods Center For The Arts – Bethel Woods, NY – 7/13/25
Usually I have a ‘Top 10’ done and posted in the beginning of the year, but big things happened towards the end of 2024 and into 2025. For starters, back in August I was promoted at work which would have me move back to the East Coast from Arkansas. However, it would become a long… Read More Top 10 Albums Of 2024
The Wal-Mart AMP closed out their 2024 season on a nice cool Autumn night with the relaxing sounds of Gregory Alan Isakov followed by a soulful closing from Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Each year the Wal-Mart AMP brings a great variety of musical and comedic acts to Northwest Arkansas to which has truly… Read More Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats / Gregory Alan Isakov – Wal-Mart AMP – Rogers, AR – 10/29/24
The last show of 2024 for Lit was a one-off show in probably the most unlikely location in the country along with where the stage was located. Lit closed out the year in West Siloam Springs, OK at the Cherokee Casino above one of their bars in the casino. I don’t know how the casino… Read More Lit – Seven Bar At Cherokee Casino – West Siloam Springs, OK – 12/28/24
I’ve said it before, but one of the hardest working band in the music industry is hands down American Aquarium. The band constantly puts out quality music, involving fans in the process of making the albums, releases music on their own label, uncovers the costs of the music industry for all to see, and then… Read More American Aquarium / Justin Bloss – George’s Majestic Lounge – Fayetteville, AR – 12/8/24
After all these years photographing Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, there are two things I can count on, one, a great swinging show, and two, photographing them in beautiful historic theatres. Gillioz Theatre is a nice intimate theatre that reminded me of the theatre I frequented growing up in Bethlehem, PA. That theatre is no more,… Read More Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Gillioz Theatre – Springfield, MO – 10/5/24
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