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Posts tagged "concert reviews"
We Saw It!: Big Daddy Kane & Slick Rick at Boston’s Wilbur Theater 3/29/13
The old school can still bring it live (in case you had any doubt.)
From A Land Down Under: The Rubens
This small town band from Meanagle, New South Wales is right on the verge of making it big.
We Saw It!: The Dukes of September At Citi Center: Boston, MA 8/9/12
Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen and Boz Scaggs joined forces to put together a fantastic show in Boston. What did you miss?
We Saw It!: The Roots @ The House of Blues in Boston 12/26
How does a dyed-in-the-wool hip-hop fan like me wait until 2012 to see his very first Roots show? I guess it’s been a combination of limited resources, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and just plain bad luck (I was supposed to see them at the Apollo a few years back, but my ticket connection fell through.) So when it was announced that The Roots would be playing Boston’s House of Blues on the day after Christmas, […]
This Is No Ordinary Love: Sade & John Legend Live in Boston
When you consider the fact that Sade tours about as often as Halley’s Comet appears, the fact that I waited until the 11th hour to pick up a ticket to their latest tour seems kind of…well, foolish. After all, the venerable British band has retained their popularity for over a quarter-century now. That has to be due to something, right? Add in support from John Legend, one of the most consistent artists of the past decade in any genre, and […]
The Killer Bs Invade Boston! (Bleu, Jim Boggia & Tracy Bonham, 3/4/11)
It was an interesting concept-three singer/songwriters-not playing on a bill in some kind of descending order, but playing together. Wasn’t totally what I was expecting, but Bleu, Tracy Bonham and Jim Boggia certainly pulled off the round-robin concept when I went to see them at Brighton Music Hall this past weekend. The three troubadours put together a pretty interesting show. They played the majority of the show as a trio (alternating “featured” performances), although each artist also performed a short […]
A Tale of Two Shows: Citizen Cope & The Black Eyed Peas
After getting home last night from seeing the Black Eyed Peas perform, I had a thought (I know, strange right?). 8 years ago, it wouldn’t have been farfetched to see the Peas and Citizen Cope on the same bill. Back then, BEP was a crunchy, borderline-conscious “alternative” rap group and Cope was an upstart singer/songwriter. Flash forward 8 years, and the BEP are dance/pop behemoths with very little trace of the hip-hop flavor of their work pre-Fergie, while Cope is…the […]