Across more than four decades, legendary drummer Simon Phillips has shown an uncanny ability to excel in most any musical environment. And he displayed that masterful excellence in a recent performance at Baltimore’s Keystone Korner.
Steve Satzberg was there to photograph the show!
It’s the 40th anniversary of a seminal alternative rock album — Fables of the Reconstruction — but unfortunately, the music’s creators aren’t active to celebrate it on tour.
Enter the actor Michael Shannon and guitarist Jason Narducy, who recruited some other musicians to from an REM tribute act that people truly love! In a recent visit to 9:30 Club, Shannon, Narducy, and company performed Fables of the Reconstruction in its entirety and then added a set of REM favorites to toast the influential jangle pop album.
Louisiana Calling is a double header bill with the Sonny Landreth Band and The Iguanas. The tour recently visited Rams Head on Stage, and Steve Satzberg was there to photograph the show!
Robin Trower’s recent set at The Birchmere, the first of two evenings at the venue, may have been the loudest show I’ve ever taken in in that room. Though he may be pushing 80, the British guitar god still turns up the volume with high-octane blues rock. This set of shows came after Trower was forced to cancel a tour last year due to medical issues that required major surgery with extensive recovery.
Friko ended their recent set at Union Stage with a couple of songs about transportation, which is apropos given the band produce energetic music as if they were parts of a finely tuned engine. Indeed, Friko have emerged as one of today’s finest young post-punk groups.
The Annapolis Baygrass Festival has helped make Maryland’s capital a hub for bluegrass music, but thanks to Naptown’s longest-thriving venue, bands, duos, and solo players have an intimate venue to visit at any time of the year, not just for the end-of-summer Baygrass gathering.
A couple of acts on the rise, North Carolina’s Chatham Rabbits and East Nash Grass out of the Music City recently embarked on a series of co-headlining shows, offering concertgoers the chance to enjoy two different takes on string-band music in the same sitting.
The night of March 2, Chatham Rabbits — performing as a duo — and East Nash Grass — rolling as a quintet — teamed up to treat a packed Rams Head on Stage with two terrific sets of songs.
West coast new romantic icon Riki has been touring a lot in the past few years. On the heels of releasing a new single, “Pulser,” she performs her first headlining show in the DMV at DC9 on Thursday, March 20.
We highly recommend that you catch this concert!
Keller Williams continued a series of shows in homage to The Grateful Dead and Tom Petty with a recent appearance at The Barns at Wolf Trap. Steve Satzberg was there to photograph the show!
Disturbed are now on a 34-date The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour, which includes a date at Capital One Arena in DC on Monday, March 17. Distrubed are joined by openers Three Days Grace and Sevendust!
The night features two sets of music, opening with Disturbed playing the 5X platinum The Sickness in full, followed by a full set of greatest hits.
On a recent cold and windy evening at The Monument in Winchester, Virginia, fans buzzed with anticipation. The Band Feel, accompanied by The Retrograde, was set to ignite the stage, and the energy was quite noticeable. As doors opened, the crowd poured into the venue, eager for a night of electrifying rock and roll.
