FESTIVAL PHOTOS: RHYMESAYERS SOUNDSET 2013 AT CANTERBURY PARK (SHAKOPEE, MN)
Soundset 2013May 26th, 2013Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN Music Photo Gallery: Soundset 2013 MusicSecond Photo Gallery: Soundset 2013 Cars, Skaters, and B Boys In only six years, Rhymesayers has created one monster of a hip-hop festival. With attendance estimated at 28,000 people s
PHOTOS: COUNT THIS PENNY & HALEY BONAR AT SH*TTY BARN SESSIONS (SPRING GREEN, WI)
Count This Penny (Madison, WI) and Haley Bonar (Minneapolis, MN)May 22nd, 2013Sh*tty Barn Sessions in Spring Green, Wisconsin “I wrote the setlist on the back of a Culver’s receipt.” What better opening line could you have for an evening of music in Spring Green, Wisconsin
Concert Review + Photos: Robert Randolph presents the Slide Brothers, with the Otis Taylor Band (Los Angeles)
February 23, 2013Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: Robert Randolph presents The Slide Brothers with The Otis Taylor, Royce Hall, Los Angeles, 2.23.13 We’re all told to respect our elders, to learn from the generation before and to pass along
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOS: 3 BRAVE SOULS AT THE KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE (CULVER CITY, CA)
February 8, 2013Jazz Bakery (Kirk Douglas Theatre) in Culver City, CAJim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Full Gallery: 3 Brave Souls, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, February 8, 2013Friday’s “3 Brave Souls” CD release event at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City is just
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