Close to four o’clock in the morning on Sunday, Travis Scott stood atop a speaker on the stage at Miami nightclub E11even. “I’m sorry nobody can be higher than me,” the 31-year-old rapper shouted at the sold out crowd packed into the two-story venue. As dry ice and dollar bills …
Read More »Billie Eilish Unplugs for Secret Third Man Show, Records Live Album
“This place is so cool,” Billie Eilish exclaimed, glancing around Third Man Records’ low-lit Blue Room between songs of her unannounced show on Wednesday at the Nashville outpost of Jack White‘s monument to all things analog. Like all performances at the 250-capacity room, Eilish’s set was being recorded direct-to-acetate on …
Read More »Revolution Girl Style, Still: Bikini Kill Thrill at First Show in 22 Years
“This is like a time machine!” Kathleen Hanna panted to the crowd of 5,000 at Bikini Kill’s first full show in two decades. Thursday night was the first of four blockbuster sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium. This show was more than just a nostalgia trip for Nineties feminist …
Read More »Rufus Wainwright Revisits Early Classics, Protests Trump at Brilliant New York Show
Rufus Wainwright is nearly half his life away from the start of his recording career, but at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday night, songs from his first two full-length LPs sounded like they were written and recorded just that day. The show was part of the Canadian singer-songwriter’s All These …
Read More »Pearl Jam Honor Seattle Roots at 'Home Shows' Kickoff
Almost 30 years later, Eddie Vedder still remembers the man who stopped him in his tracks one day on a Seattle street. “He just looked interesting,” Vedder told the crowd packed into Seattle’s Safeco Field Wednesday night for the first of the band’s two Home Shows, the tentpole events in …
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