When bands don’t get along, you can usually tell. There’s a distinct difference between friendly joshing around in interviews and the overt glaring across the stage that’s oh-so-evident in concert DVDs (no names named). But some bands manage to power through that kind of

“We went there with the spirit of it, but actually it was pretty shambolic”, “one big disappointment”, “the gig was foul” … none of these phrases strike any particular joy into the hearts of those who love Led Zeppelin, especially when you remember that

Bruce Springsteen will always take the cake as New Jersey’s poster boy for music, and deservedly so. But Bon Jovi are also one of New Jersey’s finest, and one of the most important artists of the ‘80s. When the era was riddled with cheesy,

The well-trodden path to stardom that begins in the depths of Disney and Nickelodeon-style kid culture and meanders its way to a fully-fledged adult career is one that has been traveled many times. But not everyone makes it. Plenty of child stars that were

When you think of movie music, what immediately springs to mind? As far as I’m concerned, those two little words conjure up a world of orchestras, of big emotional numbers, of songs you make people listen to when you’re drunk (just me? But the

Can I admit something? The very first time I heard The Vaccinnes, they were playing over top a commercial. I was holed up in a hotel room, sufficiently drunk on champagne and white wine during a training weekend. I was lying on the bed

New York City-based dance-pop artist Chris Glover, better known as Penguin Prison, got the crowd at Port Chester, New York’s Capitol Theatre warmed up for Duran Duran last night with an hour-long performance. During his upbeat DJ set, he included plenty of 80’s influenced