Live Reviews

Olivia Rodrigo has two Number One singles, a three-times platinum debut album and, as of Sunday, three shiny new Grammy Awards. On a chilly Tuesday in Portland, she finally launched her first-ever tour. It’s the type of rite of passage that would be a massive deal if Rodrigo hadn’t just …

PHOENIX – Tyler, the Creator sits at the center of multiple generations’ imaginations. That much was clear last night at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, where he kicked off his Call Me If You Get Lost Tour. Not since the cathartic early days of Odd Future has the 30-year-old …

Pandemic? What pandemic? That seemed to be the vibe among the 68,000 people at Garth Brooks’ concert at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday night, the first major stadium concert anywhere in the U.S. since the arrival of Covid-19. Social distancing? Nope. Masks? Maybe a few wore them. Heck, …

If you want to win over a crowd on the Great White Way, you need to open with something fun, relatable and splashy. Morrissey knows this, and at the first night of his residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, he combined one of his hits with a New York standard: “There …

When it comes to pop stardom, hits only get you so far if you don’t have an easily recognizable look. At the first date of Ariana Grande’s Sweetener World Tour in Albany on March 18th, it was clear that she has this part of the job covered. Never before has …

Given the jazz-inflected complexities and somber, introspective tone of Joni Mitchell’s most vibrant work, the skill and magnetism of the artists who took the stage on the first of two nights celebrating her 75thbirthday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at L.A.’s theMusic Center felt all the more impressive. Over the …

Patti Smith held her daughter Jesse Paris Smith’s hand as she walked onto the small stage of the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village on Monday night. Rather than the rock & roller, she appeared as the sweet mother, long silver hair plaited into two braids, a woman meant to …

Courtney Marie AndrewsMarch 17th, Cheer Up CharliesCourtney Marie Andrews tends to lean into the melancholy undercurrents that run through her music, but the ethereal air that characterized both 2016’s Honest Life and the new May Your Kindness Remain lifts when she performs onstage. Her late-afternoon set at Cheer Up Charlies’ …

“I got a question for you: are there any motherfuckers out there in the audience? Is there anybody here who runs their own shit?” asked Kesha during her set-opening performance of “Woman” at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Wednesday night. And with that fierce declaration of agency, the Nashville native set about …