Sunday night brought a full house to the Santa Barbara Bowl, to see two musical legends at work. Â Woodstock-alumn Joe Cocker and 80′s legends Huey Lewis & The News were more than up to the task, creating moments to remember as they shared hits from both of their massive catalogs. It was Lewis’ turn first. [...]
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Sting Goes Back To The Rock During Sold Out Wiltern Theatre Show In LA
The end-of-Thanksgiving-weekend LA crowd was trying to be their typical cool laid back self, but, Mr. Gordon Sumner had other ideas. The legendary artist, known as Sting, came with one goal in mind- to snap a sold out Cyber Monday crowd out of it’s doldrums. Â This was the first of a three night stand at [...]
Journey and Styx Won’t Stop Believing During Santa Barbara Bowl Show
The Santa Barbara Bowl stood, almost like a reservoir, for 1970′s and 80′s fans- as Styx and Journey stopped in this week. This was part of Journey’s ECL1PSE Tour, promoting their brand-new album of the same name that was released earlier this year.
Bright Eyes Bring The People’s Key To The Santa Barbara Bowl
REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY MARGARETTE BACANI Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, Bright Eyes set out this year to promote their newest album, “The People’s Key” with a tour of the same name.  Led by songwriter, Conor Oberst (with Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott), the multi-instrumentalist trio inflamed the Santa Barbara Bowl on September 25 with their indie [...]
Frampton Comes Alive, 35 Years Later In Santa Barbara
Released in January 1976, “Frampton Comes Alive!” is one of the best-selling live albums of all time. For its 35th anniversary, English musician Peter Frampton decided to dedicate a world tour to the event. Â Frampton would perform all of the tracks from the phenomenal double album, side to side and front to back. July 31st [...]
Concert Review: Night One- U2 360 Tour Anaheim Stadium
U2 orchestrated a solid show of songs spanning decades of albums and artistic phases to a capacity crowd that was as diverse as the band’s catalog of music in support of their album No Line on the Horizon at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Friday, June 17.
Concert Review: Panic! At The Disco At The Wiltern
PHOTOS AND REVIEW BY MARGARETTE BACANI Panic! At The Disco performed their show at the Wiltern on June 21 as part of their Vices & Virtues Tour, their first album ever since the departure of their guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker in 2009. Despite the change in the lineup, Panic! still fevered the [...]
Concert Review: The Eels At The Galaxy Theatre
REVIEW BY ERIC PAULSEN PHOTOS BY J.D. CARNES The Eels played the first show of their surprise tour at The Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana on Wednesday, June 1 to a crowd who clearly enjoyed the antics of the introverted and outlandish lead-man known affectionately as E (Mark Oliver Everett). With fresh arrangements of songs [...]
Stryper Brings Their Yellow And Black Attack To Club Nokia In LA
If there’s one thing you can say about Stryper, it’s that they still bring the rock that makes them roll. Â Even after 28 years of making music, the heavy metal pioneers sound as powerful as they were in the 80′s. Â Having last seen the Yellow and Black Attack rockers in 1985, it was tough for [...]
Daniel Lanois And Black Dub Bring A Chaotic Synergy To The El Rey
Review by: Eric Paulsen Black Dub played their first west coast show to an enthusiastic crowd at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, Jan. 28. in support of their recently released self-titled debut album. Daniel Lanois was clearly leading the direction of the music, taking the band down unexplored musical paths [...]
