CONCERT REVIEW: TAME IMPALA AT TURNER HALL (MILWAUKEE, WI)
Tame Impala (Perth, Australia), The Growl (Fremantle, Western Australia)March 3rd, 2013Turner Hall in Milwaukee, WI Of all the 2012 albums that frequented year-end lists, few were praised as highly and as often as Tame Impala’s Lonerism. The Australian band’s follow
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: FATHER JOHN MISTY & THE WALKMEN (MADISON, WI)
Today we welcome our latest contributor to Mezzic, Hillary Sprecher! Hillary is a student based out of Madison, Wisconsin, and she will be assisting with our coverage of the lively Madison music scene and beyond. Also active in the realms of Daytrotter and Jonk Music, Hillary bri
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
REVIEW: INTERPOL – TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2012)
At first, I didn’t fully get the hype. It was around the time Turn on the Bright Lightswas showing up on countless Best of 2002 lists that I first picked up the debut album from the New York four-piece. I was 17; it was during Christmas break of my senior year of high school. Best Buy [&helli
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
CONCERT REVIEW: RAH RAH AT THE DOUBLE DOOR (CHICAGO, IL)
Rah Rah (Regina, Saskatchewan)November 21th, 2012Double Door in Chicago, IL What day is it? Why did I eat so much? I once had a friend tell me she had to undo the top button of her pants after a plentiful Thanksgiving dinner. At least I’m not there yet. Right? The term “food coma” ge