Live Concerts

An early set time of 7:30 p.m. for opening band, Pageants, meant early arrival at The Echo on June 28, 2011, as I did not want to miss a thing (cue Aerosmith here). I was one of the few at this point with a beer in hand and the booth seating along the side of […]

With out even reading the bio on Shabazz Palaces’ new album, Black Up, I instantly thought of one of my favorite hip hop acts, Digable Planets. The rhymes were as smooth as hot buttah’ on a bread roll and the beats were exotically tight. After doing my research I was even more stoked to learn […]