The Music of Paul McCartney at Carnegie Hall on March 15 featured performances by a diverse array of performers, including Rock & Roll Hall of Famers and Grammy-award winners. The performers reinterpreted 25 songs from McCartney’s Beatles, Wings, and solo albums at the concert hall where the Beatles first performed in New York City, on February 12, 1964. McCartney was not present this time, but he sent his blessing. Nancy Wilson of Heart, Lyle Lovett, Bettye LaVette, Hamilton Leithauser, Jonathan Russell of the Head and the Heart, Glen Hansard, Ingrid Michaelson, Graham Nash, Bruce Ho ..read more

Shot by Ehud Lazin on March 17, Muse fans took over the famed NYC venue alongside One OK Rock and Evanescence for a great show. If you’ve ever felt the floors of Madison Square Garden shake before the headliner even took the stage, you know you’re in for a good show – a show worthy of the memories made and money spent. From beginning to end, St. Patrick’s Day at MSG was savored by the appropriately lucky music lovers and concert enthusiasts who were spending the evening there. One OK Rock opened, Evanescence supported, and Muse headlined. Each act expanded ..read more

Members of some of the best bands ever to call New Brunswick home (such as Wreaths, Aviso Hara, kiaro skuro, Stuntcocks, Urchins, and Duochrome) make up the local supergroup San Tropez. With an awesome full-length debut, Maybe Tomorrow, on the esteemed Mint 400 Records, which followed two self-released EPs, the four veteran musicians are the epitome of why artists never should give up on their art.  Their inspiring story began when vocalist-guitarist-keyboardist Ralph Nicastro (Wreaths, Aviso Hara, Sparks Fly from a Kiss) started making demos for a new project in 2016, recruitin ..read more

As fireworks exploded for the new year, Fireworks exploded into the new year. New Years Day, a time for rejoicing and celebrating fresh starts. A new year has come, bringing new challenges to be had and memories to be made. You may innocently open Spotify, hoping to turn on a festive tune, but instead you have to double take for what you’re seeing. Fireworks, the hardcore band that hasn’t been seen in nine years, had fearlessly dropped a new album, Higher Lonely Power. There was no promotion, no pre-orders, no real warning. It just arrived. The band that ..read more

Bush live in concert? Let’s do it all over again. One month ago, on February 18, Bush played Hammerstein Ballroom and New York City was lit up with rockers of all ages running to the midtown venue to catch their favorite songs live. Lucky for them (and us), they are coming back to New York in just another month for another thrilling show on April 30 at The Paramount. As they prepare to shine once again in our area – Huntington, Long Island, this time – we revisit Ehud Lazin’s visceral, visual coverage for The Aquarian, which included jaw-dropping ..read more

A study in definition. Recently, a woman who has written an entire book on the concept of “Woke,” was hawking her wares on some talk show or podcast or other and was asked a simply question that one assumes a person who has taken the time to “research” and pen a tome on one subject would be able to answer. “What does Woke mean to her?” She stammered through a weak aside before falling silent and looked as though she had lost her puppy. Of course, this is 2023, so she was summarily lambasted on social media and even made ..read more

Everynight Charley recommends the following 60+ live performances in the New York area this week. Contact the venue to confirm ticket availability, show times, age restrictions, COVID compliance, and other updates. Monday, March 20 Maddie Zahm, corook at the Bowery Ballroom Nemophila at the Gramercy Theatre The James Brandon Lewis Trio, the Messthetics at (le) Poisson Rouge Butterfly Black at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 Luca Benedetti at Skinny Dennis The Emily Duff Band at Cowgirl The Edwin Vazquez Duo at the Flatiron Room Malcolm Gold, Ann Klein, John Kengla, Rebecca Haviland at the B ..read more

Hundreds of young musicians and music industry hopefuls from around the world performed, networked and partied with local musicians at several venues within a 10-block radius in Manhattan’s Lower East Side last week. From noon until past midnight on March 8 to 12, these sidewalks were packed with excited musicians enjoying a taste of their dream lives as they unloaded vans, prepared to perform for new audiences, and listened to innovative bands as they waited their turn on stage. Many of the aspiring musicians were in New York City and even in the United States for the first time. The ..read more

Bush live in concert? Let’s do it all over again. One month ago, on February 18, Bush played Hammerstein Ballroom and New York City was lit up with rockers of all ages running to the midtown venue to catch their favorite songs live. Lucky for them (and us), they are coming back to New York in just another month for another thrilling show on April 30 at The Paramount. As they prepare to shine once again in our area – Huntington, Long Island, this time – we revisit Ehud Lazin’s visceral, visual coverage for The Aquarian, which included jaw-dropping ..read more

Adrianne Lenker cooed to more than 2,000 people at the sold-out Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, in a tone mostly reserved for babies and puppies, that all were loved by the multi-hyphenate front-person for Brooklyn music quartet Big Thief as she rested the “stars in her throat” between songs. On Saturday, February 25, in Asheville, North Carolina, the show didn’t feel so much like a performance as it did a conscious shifting, akin to a unifying Timothy Leary advocated happening – sans the LSD.  “Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, release my love, my love ..read more