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.
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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 [...]
Album Review: Steve Earle “I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive”
REVIEW BY: ERIC PAULSEN Steve Earle is probably the only artist with the street credibility and musical resume to get away with not only covering what is arguably the most famous Hank Williams Sr. song, but to carbon copy the instrumentation and arrangement of the song and then use it as his own album’s title. [...]
Concert Review: Pete Yorn And Ben Kweller, House Of Blues Anaheim
REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY: Â ERIC PAULSEN Pete Yorn is that performer who can cause some to swoon with his stage presence and charm while he makes others nod in approval of his rock and roll chops and musical grit. Yorn played the final California show of his extended tour at The House of Blues in [...]
Album Review: Cracker’s David Lowery Releases First Solo Project, “Palace Guards”
Review by: Eric Paulsen David Lowery’s first solo project, Palace Guards, finds the Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven frontman splitting the rock and roll atom in a grand experiment of ethos and pathos that explodes out of the speakers when struck with the first notes. Lowery stands out as being the singer and primary songwriter [...]
Album Review: REM “Collapse Into Now”
Review By: Â Eric Paulsen R.E.M. is undisputedly the band that has carried the American rock banner victoriously through some important years, but has clearly spent more than a decade wandering the musical landscape for the things that will define them and their legacy. Their fifteenth studio album, Collapse Into Now, finds them peering into the [...]
