Paramount Theater

The music was mondo intense — almost more intense than its performers at first — and proved why this band is one of the major progenitors of alternative rock, and still remains on top…

Though there’s enough comedy at SXSW this year to keep us satisfied for a little while, in just about two months, the first Moontower Comedy & Oddity Fest will be held in Austin…

Jane’s Addiction at Irving Plaza in 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Jane’s Addiction resurfaced in 2011 with The Great Escape Artist, their first new album of original material since 2003’s Strays…

The above poster says it all… except the venue. That would be The Paramount Theatre. Tickets are on sale. Meanwhile for some laughs, check out Neil Hamburger this Friday…

Cheap Trick was amazing… the band barely let up; if there was a second or a pause they ripped into another song, played The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour as if they owned it…

The Pixies are currently still out on a “Doolittle” tour with Surfer Blood which started at NJ’s Wellmont Theater back on 10/27. The bands returned to the NYC-area to play a Saturday night show (11/5) at Long Island’s Paramount Theater…

For those who experienced and loved ATP America’s festivals in Monticello, NY, it may have been difficult to imagine how a change of location, from upstate New York to the New Jersey shore, could possibly improve and enhance the unique and uncanny event that it was known to be…

Jeff Mangum isn’t on the list, but one could argue that the elusive frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel might be classifiable as an “outsider musician”, much like Daniel Johnston (who he covered on Friday again) and Roky Erickson (who he covered on Sunday again)…

Kyuss Lives! at Terminal 5 (more by Greg Cristman) After playing a string of dates through 11/8 with MonstrO including Terminal 5 last weekend, Kyuss Lives……

Lots of interesting stuff to report in the world of live concert promotions… NYC concert promoter Bowery Presents, who already has expanded to NJ, Boston, Maine, and Canandaigua, NY (not to mention MSG, Jones Beach, the Meadowlands, Radio City, etc), is opening a new music venue in Philadelphia this month…