Concert Central

Cyndi Lauper is just amazing. Her political speech was uplifting (think southern gospel preacher stumping for the get out and vote) and she touched the crowd through her music. The highlight was an impossibly gorgeous and spare version of I’m Gonna Be Strong and the classic Time After Time with an a capella [...]

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Carson Kressley was tapped to host the True Colors Tour 2008. His early introductions were peppered with dirty but completely lame, predictable jokes. But as the crowd warmed up, so did his delivery. During the set change before Cyndi Lauper, Carson had a good 20 minutes to keep the crowd spirited, and it [...]

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The B-52’s have been putting on the summer tours for years since their last studio album (in 1995) and greatest hits release (in 1998) but this is the first tour since recording a full album of new material. The foursome have the energy of twenty-year olds but let’s face it, the band is collectively [...]

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Wanda Sykes was way funnier than my wildest expectations. Her set was riddled with swears as she covered the temperature in Phoenix, the TSA and gay cruises. If the material was a little generic, her delivery more than made up for it.

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Whatever possessed Andy Bell to sign up for the True Colors Tour this year, show up in a track suit and sweat to the oldies (in this case, Erasure songs) is beyond me. Andy’s voice is usually heavenly but pitch problems and oddball set up gave the entire performance a work-out video feel from [...]

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Cover act cross between the Andrew Sisters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Got a earful of Crazy in Love (Beyonce), Heart of Glass (Blondie) and their finale was Walk Like an Egyptian (Bangles). Also did Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Nice voices, 40’s style dresses but my attention wandered two songs [...]

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really liked songs I downloaded from them – diverse vocals, MySpace song selections made me doubt but enjoyed their live show, young hippie thrashers, the last endless song was a fantastic wave of a song

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lead singer was Lars’ buddy who is always at Beerland, they were a stripped down minimalist type post-punk, spoken vocals, would need to see them again to rate their interest level

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We arrived at Jones Beach just in time for lightning to strike the building and shut down Modest Mouse’s set while they evacuated the audience. The rain began to pour forth from the sky and the lightning storm kept us at bay (literally in the tunnel underneath our seats) for ninety minutes. They [...]

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R.E.M. was brilliant. Michael Stipe was in a wholly playful mood tonight, and after burning through the first five songs without a pause, spent the next forty minutes introducing every song with a personal note about its meaning or some emotional attachment he has to it. It’s not just banter, either, because there [...]

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