This new release is a double-LP vinyl retrospective by Minneapolis, MN heavies The Coup de Grace. The Coup de Grace were a great band.  As background for those who may not know them, The Coup were a thrash metal-meets-90s-hard-alternative-rock band who came up in the fertile Minneapolis music scene in the later 1980s. They post-dated by a few years the more famous bands that arose from that scene (Prince, Replacements, Husker Du, Soul Asylum), and started life as many meta

Aly and AJ brought their Places to Run Tour with support by Hayden Blount to Archer Music Hall in Allentown, PA. It was one of the first nice days in the Lehigh Valley after a really long and cold winter. Downtown was bustling with concert goers between this show and Hardy a few blocks away the city felt alive.

Soundcheck Studios located on Boston’s South Shore is a wonderful live music venue, with great atmosphere, lights and sound and with some great up and coming bands and these two were great!!!! As part of their New England Tour, One Time Weekend stopped at Soundcheck Studios, in Pembroke, MA, on March 27, 2026, for one set live performance with the indie rock band Knot Art as the opener. Several hundreds of fans attended the concert. It was a terrific night of music.

There are shows you go to, and then there are shows that feel like they mean something before a single note even lands. That was the energy walking into The Basement East for Dogs in a Pile. The room was already buzzing, not just for the music, but for a purpose bigger than the stage. The Rae of Light Foundation was set up inside, doing more than just showing face. They were connecting, educating, and putting real action behind their mission. 

Photo Galleries: Tigers Jaw with Creeks and Hot Flash Heat Wave

This resounding triple-bill of old-school thrash metal has been ripping it up back and forth across the United States in March/April 2026 – the ‘Thrash of the Titans’ tour (a variation on the early 90s ‘Clash of the Titans’ tour title which featured Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth) – which has been ranging from Portland, OR in the Northwest in early March, across the Midwest to the East Coast, and will be heading back westward to finish up in L.A. and San Francisco in mid-Ap

What inspired the theme or concept behind this album? Many of the songs on this album were inspired by the place I grew up - a small farm in rural New Brunswick, and I wrote it at a time when there was a lot of change going on in my life. Part of the change was letting go of this place that had shaped me.  

Gogol Bordello brought their signature high-energy chaos to Boston’s Royale on March 25, 2026, transforming the packed room into an electrifying, dance-filled frenzy. The night started with lively performances from Puzzled Panther (see below) and Boris and the Joy, both of which set the mood with eclectic, globally inspired sounds before joining the headliners later in the show.

Free Throw has returned with their latest album, "Moments Before the Wind," and I'm finding it challenging to write this review. I'll always have a special place in my heart for Free Throw because they were the first to give me a chance when I was just starting out in concert photography, even before I became a photojournalist. At the time, I lacked a resume, had only photographed a charity event, and was inexperienced and unfamiliar with the rules, yet they gave me an opport