Maurice John Vaughn @ The M-Shop, 3.28.18
By Michael Swanger Chicago bluesman Maurice John Vaughn’s wide-ranging talents as a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, keyboards, but no saxophone on this
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Dirkschneider @ The Cabooze, 3.12.18
When former Accept vocalist Udo Dirkschneider stepped onstage at The Cabooze in Minneapolis on March 12, the diminutive native of
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Robert Cray/Matt Woods @ Hoyt Sherman Place, 3.3.18
Five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-guitarist-songwriter Robert Cray and his band (bassist Richard Cousins, keyboardist Dover Weinberg and drummer Terence F. Clark)
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Judas Priest — “Firepower”
Following the release of their love-it-or-hate-it 1986 album “Turbo,” Judas Priest, long considered one of the founders of the working
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Rausch — “Book II”
Mastermind pianist/composer Doug Rausch is back with “Book II,” the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 self-titled debut album. Rausch,
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Saxon — “Thunderbolt”
On the heels of two successful U.S. co-headlining tours with UFO, British heavy metal legends Saxon managed to find the
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Review: Katy Perry, Wells Fargo Arena, 12.2.17
The outrageously lavish world of pop music mega-stardom is a place where the idiom “more is better, and bigger is
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Revolution Saints — “Light In The Dark”
The term “supergroup” is a moniker used frequently these days to describe the gathering of three to five musicians who
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Europe — “Walk the Earth”
Heraclitus had it right. The Greek philosopher and pioneer of wisdom once preached that “change is the only constant in
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Paul Kelly — “Life Is Fine”
Despite a long and storied career in music, Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly claims that songwriting is a mystery to him
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