Music
Bon Jovi never afraid to change their sound
For more than 25 years, Bon Jovi has been cranking out hit albums and playing arenas and stadiums, while establishing a level of enduring popularity that only a handful of acts have ever achieved...
Found Sounds: Nov. 23, 2022
It finally happened. For the first time since its Oct. 21 release, Taylor Swift’s Midnights has slipped from the top spot in our weekly...
Camaraderie of weirdness
Sean Lennon didn’t expect that when his band, The Ghost Of A Sabertooth Tiger, got the opportunity to open a tour in summer 2015...
Dr. Dog is helping resurrect lo-fi rock, not like they’ll admit...
Two years ago, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog — a quirky, loveable indie-soul band that released its so-so sixth album Shame, Shame on April 6 — packed Denver’s Hi-Dive, a tiny bar on South Broadway that holds about 200 people when the fire department isn’t looking. ...
Leftapalooza 2017 recap!
This year's Leftapalooza was another smashing success! Left Hand Brewing Company’s ultimate music and craft beer experience once again brought together some of the...
Legendary guitarist Al Stewart rediscovers his obscurities
There was probably mud on their boots when they were marched out to the Katyn Forest that day in 1940...
Staying up late
Each week, Carmen Sandim voluntarily forgoes sleep for two nights. Not back to back, of course, because that would be crazy. Still, two nights...
1stBank Center’s new management delivers
For a slideshow of the March 5 Furthur concert as well as photos of the 1stBank Center, click here...
Hippie to hardcore
Public Enemy’s Chuck D once told The Gaslamp Killer he looked like Jim Croce. Maybe it was the long hair and bushy mustache he was rocking at the time, but either way, he had no idea what Croce looked like, so he had to look him up. Sure enough, they had a slight ...
Tried and true troubadours
These days, the word “troubadour” has become virtually synonymous with “singer.” Yet if you take a look back to medieval days when the word emerged, you’ll see that the original meaning was much less inclusive. In order to be classified as a troubadour, one couldn’t ...
Mark Vann Benefit celebrates eight years of charity
Very few banjo players possess enough talent to influence a music scene so powerfully as the late Leftover Salmon banjoist Mark Vann. But when Vann lost his battle with melanoma in 2002 at age 39, some of his fellow bandmates came up with an idea to memorialize their...
El Ten Eleven
Chalk it up to good luck or the benevolent hand of Providence, the SoCal duo El Ten Eleven landed safely in Philadelphia (see what...
















