Online News — Plan A: Upcoming Shows
Dale Watson at Rock ‘n’ Bowl on Saturday, August 31, 2013
Lots of people write songs complaining about modern country music, but few are gutsy enough to name names. This was not a problem for Dale Watson,who cut a memorable version […]
The Cult at the House of Blues on Saturday, August 31, 2013
Single-album tours a reall the rage nowadays,and sometimes just one album from a band will do nicely. Case in point: The Cult. Originally away-too-serious band called Southern Death Cult, the […]
Andrew Stockdale at One Eyed Jacks on Monday, July 29, 2013
The Australian band Wolfmother never sounded like the future of rock &roll: They sounded like the distant past of rock & roll,which accounted for their charm. Lots of bands borrow […]
Cyndi Lauper at the House of Blues on June 30, 2013
It’s the summer of 1983,and a singer with punkish attitude and outlandish fashion sense releases a debut album of smart,quirky songs. No big deal, right? Except that Cyndi Lauper’s She’s […]
Black Francis at the Old U.S. Mint on May 5
Take note that it’s Black Francis, not Frank Black who’s coming to town this month. While the two have a lot in common— for starters, they inhabit the same body—they […]
Dick Dale at Howlin’ Wolf on April 15
The shocking truth about Dick Dale,who invented the most Californian of guitar sounds,is that he’s actually from Quincy,Massachusetts. And it wasn’t hot sun or bitchin’ waves that first inspired his […]
Plan A: Leonard Cohen at the Mahalia Jackson Theater
No artist has contributed more to the 20th century musical canon than Leonard Cohen, he of the inimitably grave, gravelly voice and heart-shattering lyrical passage. At the age of 78, […]
Plan A: Old 97s at Tipitina’s
Since appearing on the alt-country scene of the mid-to-late ‘90s alongside like-minded acts Uncle Tupelo, Whiskeytown and the Jayhawks, Rhett Miller and his crew of cowpunkers have grown a devoted […]
Calexico at One-Eyed Jacks
With their Latin- tinged, desert-ready tunes, Joey Burns and John Convertino, better known as Calexico, have forged an indie niche befitting their dusty Tucson, Ariz. roots. The band owes as […]
Chris Smither at Chickie Wah Wah, December 13
In 1970 I was on assignment from Zygote magazine to interview a young Texas songwriter named Townes Van Zandt. I struck up an instant friendship with this twentysomething guy who […]
