Paul Robicheau
Jeff Beck didn’t play the fastest runs but wielded dynamic emotion in every deftly spaced note – and didn’t even use a pick.
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Read MoreDamn straight, English singer/songwriter Beth Orton was back in the room – after a six-year absence.
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Read MoreSurprisingly, for a band whose hypnotic music throughout the documentary provides a continuum with menacing and meditative extremes that mesh with near-mathematical discipline, it’s the human elements that leave the greatest impressions..
Read MoreAt House of Blues, Fontaines D.C.’s brooding, bristling music was offset by shifting swatches of amber and purple lighting amid the shadows, casting the musicians in mysterious terms.
Read MoreOnce the original Roxy Music core took the stage with their nine supporting musicians, most concerns melted into 100 sublime minutes of music.
Read MoreThe veteran band from Louisville, Kentucky, kicked into the millennium with a wild and woolly mix of Southern rock, alt-country, space-prog, and electro-funk that grew weirder over time.
Read MoreA relatively short-but-sweet night that struck just enough highs and no real lows – as long as one accepts that Van Morrison gives more heed to covers than his own hits.
Read MoreTo some degree, everything fit under the resilient umbrella that the late George Wein raised at the edge of Newport Harbor.
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