Tesco Vee and his latest incarnation of the three decade old Meatmen played Europa in Brooklyn on August 31, 2012. Taking the stage looking resplendent in his Flamenco style ABBA pants, a feather boa, light up devil horns and a blinking LED belt buckle reminding us that ‘YOU SUCK’ he thrust a giant inflatable cock into the crowd and showered them with confetti. ...

To tell you the absolute truth, I hate going to concerts by myself. Despite the fact that conversation between co-attendees is generally governed by gig volume and breaks between the songs, it’s always nice to be able to turn to your friend(s) and do the “Fuck, yeah” nod in appreciation of what you’re witnessing taking place on ...

Former front man for The Dictators, Handsome Dick Manitoba, took his new band, simply called Manitoba, on tour for a few quick dates in Ontario this past weekend. Made up of originals Dictators and former Manowar guitar player Ross The Boss and former Dictators drummer JP Patterson as well as newcomers Daniel Rey on guitar and Dean Rispler on bass, these mighty men of rock n roll put Hamilton venue This Ain’t Hollywood under the thunder much to the delight of the rowdy crowd.

As seems to be the norm for the band, they opened quite rightly with The Party ...

Pulp’s first New York City show since 1998 took place at one of the city’s most historic venues last night and while the band may have aged they haven’t slowed down in the least. Without a single new song to perform the band tore through two hours of what was basically a greatest hits show (with a few omissions – no ‘Help The Aged’ or ‘Cocaine Socialism’ sadly!) with an emphasis on material from the Different Class album.

An amusing laser light show asked the audience a few interesting questions ...

Released by: MVD
Released on: February 21, 2012.
Director: Dave Markey
Cast: J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Murph, Henry Rollins
Year: 2011
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Full disclosure: I’ve never been much of a Dinosaur Jr. fan. I tried to get into them when I was in highschool as I had some friends who were absolutely rabid for them, but it never clicked for me. Don’t get me wrong, they were never a band I hated or anything, but their ...

Last night at The Bowery Electric in Manhattan rock and roll history was made when the New York City debut (and only the second show ever – there was a short set performed at the awesome Asbury Lanes on January 13th) of Manitoba thundered into the downstairs performance space to deliver pure, unadulterated rock and roll to a crowd that had to have been packed in the past legal capacity. Despite the fact ...

For the seventh year in a row now, Boston’s Street Dogs, lead by former Dropkick Murphy’s frontman Mike McColgan (and now having far surpassed that band in terms of importance and ability) have headlined the ‘Wreck The Halls Tour’ along the east coast of these United States. Supporting acts for the December 10^th, 2011 show at Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, New Jersey included Long Island’s own The Jukebox Romantics, a celt punk band from Texas lead by a Scotsman called Murder The Stout, and punk act Off With Their Heads.

Never having been to a punk show at a bowling alley before, ...

Turbonegro played their first (and so far only!) U.S. show with their new singer last night at Santo’s Party House to kick off the World Snowboarding Championships. Hosted by Andrew WK, who really only appeared on stage after the main set ended to encourage the crowd to cheer for an encore (which we did and which we got), the sold out show attracted fans from as far away as France and the band did not disappoint. Former Dukes Of Nothing frontman Tony Sylvester had ...

Released by: MVD
Released on: September 27, 2011
Director: Joey Carey
Cast: of Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Steve Mackay, Mike Watt
Year: 2010
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In 2010 a contest was held in which contestants were encouraged to film themselves asking whatever question they wanted of Iggy & The Stooges for a chance to win the opportunity to film the band live in concert ...

Released by: MVD Visual
Released on: August 23, 2011
Director: Matthew Robison
Cast: The Jesus Lizard
Year: 2009
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The Jesus Lizard had a pretty good run. They formed in 1987 and made it until 1999 before breaking up and while they never got as big as they probably deserved to be, they earned the solid cult following that they did find ...

As part of the Lincoln Center Out Of Doors series of free summer concerts, Billy Bragg showed up on the perfect summer evening of July 27^th for the first stateside occurrence of his ‘Big Busk Out’ show. Say what now? Yeah, basically, the ‘Big Busk Out’ concept is that anyone who wants to can ...

June 19th was the date of the fourth annual Punk Island festival, a free concert arranged in conjunction with Make Music NYC. For the fourth year in a row music fans crammed onto a ferry in lower Manhattan, trying to smuggle beer and pot past security guards for the five minute boat ride across the water to Governors Island, a former military installation now made into park land to watch various acts, local and otherwise, play on the makeshift dirt stages. ...

Japanese jet rock legends Guitar Wolf landed their rock n roll mothership at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on May 13^th, 2011, the fourth stop on their Hoochie Coochie Space Men 2011 US tour in support of their tenth full length album, Space Battleship Love, which came out on Sony in Japan but, like most of their recent output, has yet to see a release in North America. ...

Off! have been touring with California’s Trash Talk and New York City’s Cerebral Ballzy over the last month or so and at the time of this writing have only a few more East Coast dates left before the tour ends (and Off! headlines on the west coast). Last night brought the line up to Santo’s Party House in Manhattan’s Chinatown, a multi-level performance space/dance hall/bar co-owned by Andrew WK, where the main performance level was packed to capacity. While the acoustics aren’t always great at Santos (last night being no exception), the staff was ...

Released by: MVD
Released on: 4/5/2011
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A common problem among Iggy & The Stooges fans is that almost all over their live recordings from their prime sound like absolute shit. Chalk it ...

Perpetually awesome Canadian three piece Danko Jones made a rare New York City appearance last night, playing to a pretty solid audience at the fairly intimate Studio at Webster Hall on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Two opening acts preceded the main event. We didn’t arrive in time to catch The Brought Low but ...

Released by: ABC Entertainment
Released on: 11/23/2010
Director: Gunther Kutsch
Cast: The Cramps
Year: 2006
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Lux Interior was taken from this world far too early on February 4, 2009, a day that brought those of us with good taste quite literally to tears. The wildest frontman in the history of rock and roll (yeah, I said it – eat it, Stooges loyalists!), Lux was a veritable ...

Punk legends X played the final date of their very-short "Xmas Tour" at the Roseland Theater here in Portland earlier this month.

Their live sets were preceeded by a screening of the 1986 film ...

If you ever get the chance to see Negative Approach live, you’ll quicly come to the realization that John Brannon is the man. After getting the band back together a few years ago (they broke up in the eighties, Brannon kept it going with some different guys, and then they broke up too) and laying the Laughing Hyenas to rest (his other band, Easy Action, is still going strong and ...