The skies were tangled in gloom all day in New Haven, CT, on May 24, 2025, but Joe Russo’s Almost Dead dispelled the inclement weather with two sets of improvisational heat. The performance marked the band’s thirteenth appearance at the Westville Music Bowl, a…
With only one drummer in the lineup for the first time since 2020, the four members of Goose now frame the stage in a semicircle; Cotter Ellis’s drum kit sits at one end, and Peter Anspach’s keyboard corral at the other. Guitarist Rich Mitarotonda and bassist Trevor Weeks fill the space between. They’ve deployed a similar arrangement as a quintet in the recent past, but with the percussion…
This past weekend I spent what felt like 18 bajillion calories trudging up and down (and up again) the slopes of Legend Valley while attending the 12th Dark Star Jubilee. Since 2012, Dark Star Orchestra (DSO)—arguably the world’s most successful…
Joe Russo's Almost Dead gifted the Atlantic and Northeast states a three-night Memorial Day Weekend run, starting in Virginia Beach, VA. We missed this great show but were fortunate to attend their throw down at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury…
Last Monday night, the legendary Englishman brought all that innovative and prolific prowess to the temple of music just west of Denver for the opening show of the most recent leg of his ongoing 3.0 World Tour. Although it was a work night for most of Colorado’s Front Range, Red Rocks was full to the brim and got the treatment from the band in a single set that clocked in at nearly two hours.…
