Concert Review + Photos: Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40 at The Mint (Los Angeles, CA)
Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40 January 26, 2013The Mint in Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40, The Mint, Los Angeles, 1.26.13 Mahavishnu Orchestra is in the pantheon of jazz fusion pioneers. Black hole density, volcanic in
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOS: DRAGON SMOKE AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Dragon Smoke (New Orleans, LA) December 12, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: Dragon Smoke, The Mint, Los Angeles, 12.12.12 Certain celestial alignments skip decades, if not lifetimes, or at a minimum, involve covering great distanc
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOS: DARK DARK DARK AT LA MAROQUINERIE (PARIS)
Love Like Birds (Ghent, Belgium) and Dark Dark Dark (Minneapolis, MN)December 2nd, 2012La Maroquinerie in Paris, France The past weekend was beautiful in Paris with the streets and Seine basking in much deserved, all-too-rare sunlight cast on tourists, students, workers and through stained glass
PHOTOGRAPHY: TOKI WRIGHT & CHAMPAGNE CHAMPAGNE AT L’INTERNATIONAL (PARIS)
Toki Wright (Minneapolis, MN) and Champagne Champagne (Seattle, WA)November 9th, 2012L’International in Paris, France I’m back in Paris once again, and while many people instantly scatter and scramble towards Trocadero and the Eiffel Tower, or to the Seine to breathe in the touristic qu
CONCERT REVIEW: MADONNA AT XCEL ENERGY CENTER (ST. PAUL, MN)
Madonna (New York City, NY) and Paul Oakenfold (London)November 3rd, 2012Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN Photos by Ryan Siverson, you can see more here: Madonna at the Xcel Energy Center For a certain demographic, pop stars reign as the ultimate in entertainment. With hig
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: RED BARAAT AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Red Baraat (Brooklyn, NY)September 18th, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Since I last caught up with Red Baraat in February, the self described “Brooklyn dhol’n’brass” by way of a second line, has been to the White House,
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: BOMBINO AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Bombino (Niger)September 18th, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar was born in a nomadic encampment in Niger in 1980. Some 26 years later he was playing alongside Keith Richards and Charlie W
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: THE REVIVALISTS AT THE MINT (LOS ANGELES, CA)
The Revivalists (New Orleans, LA)September 11th, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Jazzfest’s surprise moments can happen any time. One of mine came this year when The Revivalists kicked off the Fest from the Gentilly stage before noo
PHOTOGRAPHY: ROCK COUNTY FOLK SYMPOSIUM 2012
Samantha Glass (Madison, WI), Cains & Abels (Chicago, IL), Golden Donna (Madison, WI), Control (Madison, WI), Finite, Pioneer (Madison, WI), Sleepy Lesbos (Madison, WI), Count This Penny (Madison, WI), Austin Hays, Crane Your Swan Neck (Madison, WI), Chants (Madison, WI), Dou