Live Music News & Review - The First Word on The Scene

NEWS

Hollywood Palladium hosts Sports Team and Supergrass

LMNR - September 8, 2025

September 5 2025 Words by Lawrence Mann and pictures by A Rood PhotoLondon-based indie outfit Sports Team opened the...

CHRISTONE “KINGFISH” INGRAM SHARES NEW SONG, “BAD LIKE ME”

July 29, 2025

KYLE HOLLINGSWORTH (THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT) SHARES EXPANSIVE ODE...

July 24, 2025

Rest in Peace Ozzy Osbourne

July 22, 2025

Mammoth

July 14, 2025

SHOW REVIEWS

Albert Lee ‘Tearin’ It Up’ at the Bull Run,...

Kathy Hicks - January 14, 2026

Kathy Hicks-Murray, Maura Kilsdonk (Assistant Photographer)We showed up at the venue about an hour before show start...

Grunge Evolved, Bush and Soul Asylum Deliver a Loud...

December 22, 2025

Fleetwood Mac vs. Tom Petty: Even the Losers Get...

December 16, 2025

Quiet Riot Lights Up the Wolf Den with Hard...

December 15, 2025

Mohegan Sun Welcomes Elements – Earth, Wind & Fire...

December 10, 2025

EDITORS PICKS

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The Orpheum Theatre's marquee for The Last Waltz 40 - photo by Steve Kennedy

40th Anniversary of The Last Waltz at the Orpheum-April 13th, 2017

Show Reviews Steve Kennedy - April 18, 2017

Warren Haynes/Don Was' 40th Anniversary of The Last Waltz Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, CA April 13,...

Railroad Earth Brings 25th Anniversary Tour to The Lincoln Theatre

Show Reviews Dan Rozman - January 17, 2026

Photos by Mark Raker and Dan RozmanRailroad Earth closed out their four-night New...

FESTIVAL PREVIEWS

Sublime Announces “SUBLIME ME GUSTA” MUSIC FESTIVAL – A Multi-City Celebration of Reggae, Punk Rock, Hip-Hop, and The Spirit of Sublime

LMNR - December 8, 2025

The Black Angels Host Levitation 2025

September 10, 2025

Free Festival We Make Noise Happening August 23 in Downtown

August 8, 2025

3rd Annual Fields & Forest Forever Music Fest

July 28, 2025

Full 2025 Lowell Folk Festival Schedule for July 25-27 Released

July 25, 2025

VENUE SPOTLIGHT

GARCIA’S CHICAGO SHARES ECLECTIC MENU AND BEVERAGE PROGRAM INSPIRED BY JERRY GARCIA’S PERSONAL TASTES, HERITAGE, AND MUSIC

LMNR - May 1, 2025

52 Sumner Springfield MA

April 3, 2025

Sk8bar: Skating, Music, Freedom

May 8, 2023

Fritzel’s New Orleans

January 6, 2023

Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia Venue Spotlight

February 2, 2022

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

She Wants Revenge on this Cruel World

Harriet Kaplan - May 16, 2025

Mareux – Cruel World 2025

May 15, 2025

MUSICAL MEMORIES

How an Era Ended: Knebworth Park, the Last Live Performance of Freddie Mercury With Queen

LMNR - June 29, 2021

by Popular Demand

Concert Memory: The Who and the Grateful Dead

Robert E ODonnell - April 28, 2020

By Robert E O'DonnellOn March 28th, 1981, I was there at The RockPalast in Essen, Germany, in the fifth row for The Who & The Grateful Dead. I actually snuck into the show...

Chicago LIVE at Fred Kavli Theatre

February 25, 2022

John Mayer Sob Rock Tour Opener

February 10, 2022

Katey Sagal and The Forest Rangers

December 2, 2019

STYX, REO Speedwagon and Loverboy Review

July 20, 2022

FROM THE ARCHIVES

ARTHUR BROWN Releases New Single With VANILLA FUDGE’s MARK STEIN

October 29, 2020

Willie Nelson cancels Tour

August 8, 2019

Phish June 22 2025 Manchester NH

June 23, 2025

Mike Doughty Apr 26

April 26, 2014

EVEN MORE NEWS

Following the Arrow: Remembering Bob Weir

January 15, 2026

Albert Lee is ‘Laying It Down” on Tour.

January 5, 2026

Samantha Fish in SB CA

November 27, 2025