La Roux played the Showbox Market on Monday evening to an adoring and dancing crowd. La Roux deserves this respect – they’re purveyors of synth dance music of the best kind. With the vocals of Ellie Jackson, they recall and reinvent the genre of the Human League, Heaven 17 and Eurythmics. Perfection! Local artist DJ […]
If Muse had arranged for a spaceship to land in the middle of KeyArena it would not have surprised me one bit. If any band could manage that Muse is it, and that’s about the only way they could top themselves with their incredible music and galactic stage set. Although they manage to pull you […]
Silversun Pickups opened for Muse last night in a pairing straight out of my dreams. The atmosphere at this show was really charged and I doubt there were people there who were not fans of both bands. If they weren’t they absolutely must have left as fans. This was my fourth time at a Silversun […]
John Mayer opened his show last night at KeyArena with Heartbreak Warfare, one of my favorite songs off his new CD, Battle Studies. The first half of his set, which included Belief, Perfectly Lonely, Crossroads and Assassin moved gorgeously into some more bluesy numbers, Dreaming With a Broken Heart and Heavier Things’ Clarity and Daughters. […]
The new JET cd, Shaka Rock, is really something wonderful. Go get it. The band performed the songs She’s a Genius, Beat on Repeat, Walk, Goodbye Hollywood, Seventeen, K.I.A. (Killed in Action) and Black Hearts (on Fire) from the album and the new material stands up beautifully to their prior work. I won’t ruin the […]