High On Miles : Electric And Live

I don’t think I will ever come to the day where Miles Davis doesn’t fascinate me. Even if I didn’t connect musically, the guy is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. His phases so completely defined as an artist that there’s literally lines separating them; chapters in a book as dense as Pynchon, but taken […]

McCoy and Henderson, Forces Of Nature : Live At Slugs’, 1966

I was never much of a live album guy. Growing up I had a few that stood out and I would listen to more than once, as opposed to relegating it to the shoebox of shame in my closet. The shoebox was where unloved albums went to die, making room for the bangers and regular […]

The War On Drugs : Live Drugs Again

The live album really came into prominence in the 70s. Kiss Alive, Frampton Comes Alive, and Cheap Trick At Budokan were some of the biggest albums of the decade of decadence. While selling millions, they were merely chum thrown into the waters for hungry fans to nibble on while the bands went back into the […]

London Odense Ensemble : Live At Jaiyede Jazz Festival

When you’re as tight, forward-thinking, and exploratory as London Odense Ensemble it’s hard not to keep striking while the iron’s hot. The five-piece fusion/cosmic jazz collective is made up of Danish musicians Jonas Munk(guitar), Martin Rude(bass), and Jakob Skøtt(drums); as well as London-based Tamar Osborn(saxophone, winds) and Al MacSween(keyboards). A fruitful recording session back in […]

METZ : LIVE AT THE OPERA HOUSE

METZ have established themselves as modern post-punk titans over the course of a decade, making albums as sonically punishing as they are deceptively catchy. Pained, barb wire-wrapped pop structures coated in honey, dipped in broken glass and meticulously pounded into our psyches until we give into the aural assault. The Canadian four-piece released their fourth […]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience : Live In Maui

The show that makes up the new live set Live In Maui by The Jimi Hendrix Experience was recorded a mere two months before Jimi Hendrix’ death in September of 1970. On July 30th, 1970 Jimi and his second iteration of his Experience, which consisted of drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, flew to […]

Live Series Part Four : Miles Davis’ ‘Live Evil’

I mean, if I’m forced to stay home in pandemic isolation I might as well enjoy myself. There’s no point in fretting over not being able to hang out in crowds at restaurants, or zombie shuffle my way thru the mall. I’m really not a fan of either of those activities anyways. Crowds cause me […]

Live Music Part Two : Causa Sui’s ‘Live In Copenhagen’

Before I bought Causa Sui’s Live at Freak Valley in 2014, the last live album I’d purchased was Wilco’s Kicking Television : Live In Chicago back in 2005. Before that? I couldn’t tell you(maybe W.A.S.P.’s Live…In the Raw back in middle school.) I was in the throes of a Causa Sui obsession. I hit the […]

Live Series Part One : Jimi Hendrix’ Live At Woodstock

I think I watched Woodstock three or four times before I was 10-years old. Probably never in its entirety, but bits and pieces for sure. Having six channels growing up I was hitting the TV Guide like a boss looking for things to watch that would make me feel less out of the times. All […]