There are five bands you need to see at AURA next week… Hold it! Hold it right there! What do you mean FIVE bands? There are 33 bands playing, counting all of the permutations and combinations of the Heavy Pets. What gives? Agreed. You need to see ALL 33 bands at AURA next weekend at…
The Bear Creek half-time lasted approximately seven hours (I got about five hours of sleep), from the last silent disco sets near 5 AM to Alecia Chakour sending out the noon wake-up call. By the end of Saturday, it would be official (with a ceremony Sunday afternoon): the Taz Bear Creek. Remember this name: Brandon…
Music is therapy for life. So saith Isaac Teel, drummer for TAUK. These are my four favorite music days of the year. I feel cleansed. Renewed. Envigorated. Alive. Unlike Thursday’s stage-hopping, the Friday and Saturday schedules make it impossible to see and hear everything, even if you could teleport. So you decide: see half of…
For the sake of the argument, let’s make two assumptions. Assumption One: You are attending the Bear Creek Arts & Music Festival this week. Assumption Two: Despite your best efforts, you have not been successful at cloning yourself. Here is your dilemma: Which bands will you go see, and which ones will you miss? Before…
Music is important. Family is more important, so let me pass on great news before the music review. Jesse Hensley, lead guitarist for Big Something, did not make this four-gig pairing with Tauk (Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, DC). A vertebra pressing on his spinal chord was causing him enormous pain. The great news is that he…
HI. I’M SCOTT. Hi, Scott! I’M A MUSIC-AHOLIC. IT’S BEEN TWO WHOLE DAYS SINCE I WENT TO A SHOW. What? You need a fix! We’ll take you to a show right now! See? That’s the problem with Music-aHolics Anonymous. Everybody’s an enabler! But I just can’t help myself (hey, that would make a good song…