Barenaked Ladies // Detroit, MI // 12.05.2023

Barenaked Ladies Sound Board Detroit, MI December 05, 2023 The Barenaked Ladies started their set off, mentioning that it was  “a little chilly to play Pine Knob” but everyone in the audience appreciated seeing them in a very small and intimate setting at the SoundBoard in Detroit on Tuesday evening.  Continue Reading

Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness // Detroit, MI // 12.03.2023

Andrew McMahon In TheWilderness The Fillmore Detroit, MI December 03, 2023   Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness brought the “New Friends” tour to the Fillmore in Detroit on Sunday night and the place was filled to the brim. Andrew mentioned that nowadays his audience is not high schoolers anymore, but Continue Reading

Trans-Siberian Orchestra // Toledo, OH // 12.01.2023

Trans-Siberian Orchestra Huntington Center Toledo, OH December 01, 2023     Setlist The Hourglass Mozart/Figaro The Lost Christmas Eve The Ghosts of Christmas Eve O Come All Ye Faithful / O Holy Night Good King Joy Christmas Dreams Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) Christmas Canon Rock What Child Is This? Music Continue Reading

Mammoth WVH // Grand Rapids, MI // 11.11.2023

Mammoth WVH w/Nita Strauss The Intersection Grand Rapids, MI November 11, 2023 After opening for Metallica in Detroit on Friday, Mammoth WVH sold out the Intersection in Grand Rapids on Saturday night.  Fans started lining up in the afternoon to secure their front-row spots for the evening. Opening the night Continue Reading

Album Review: Silent Planet – SUPERBLOOM

“A close encounter” took on a second meaning for Silent Planet in 2022, with the band experiencing a near fatal accident amidst writing their fifth full length. Through this trauma came a new found enthusiasm for their art, resulting in the band’s most varied, grandiose, and uncompromising record to date: Continue Reading

Le Tigre // Chicago, IL // 7.15.23

Le Tigre w/ MAN ON MAN Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed July 15, 2023 Photos and Review by Nina Tadic Le Tigre is a Girl Scoutcore, funky, fun feminist dream to witness. On their first full tour since 2005, the band took to Chicago’s Salt Shed this past Saturday Continue Reading

Shania Twain // Tinley Park, IL // 07.01.23

Shania Twain Credit Union 1 Ampitheatre Tinley Park, IL Review and Photos by Nina Tadic Shania Twain proves she is a reigning queen of country yet again with her Queen of Me Tour in Tinley Park. Over the past three decades, Shania has been turning out single after single, and Continue Reading

Beach Weather // Chicago, IL // 06.20.23

Beach Weather House of Blues Chicago, IL June 20, 2023 Review and Photos by Nina Tadic Alternative indie outfit Beach Weather has got it down – their sound, their aesthetic, their energy – and it shows the second they hit the stage. Opening for Lovelytheband., on their current US tour, Continue Reading

Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour is Every Swiftie’s Wildest Dream

Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Ford Field Detroit, MI June 10, 2022 Words and Images by Nina Tadic* *captioned photos courtesy of TAS Rights Management Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour is something out of every Swiftie’s Wildest Dreams.    Hours before the start of every show, fans are lined up Continue Reading

Bikini Kill – Milwaukee, WI – 04.19.23

Is feminism dead? Is punk dead? Is riot grrrl a thing of the past? Not even close, and Bikini Kill is the living, breathing proof.  Taking the stage at the gorgeous Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee on Tuesday, these women brought all the same energy as a lightning storm, and did Continue Reading

Album Review: Pile’s “All Fiction” delivers on atmosphere and ambition

You don’t come across many bands like Pile. The trio has melded haunting soundscapes and indie-rock grit for 15 years, and it’s put to tremendous effect on their eighth studio album, “All Fiction,” out now on Exploding in Sound Records. You can tell that great care went into capturing and Continue Reading

Album Review: “Pollen” by Tennis is full of unbridled love songs, otherworldly romance and poetic lyricism 

The album comes after the just pre-pandemic release of their fifth album, Swimmer. Now, their sixth album, Pollen, comes at the close of three torrential years of pandemic life. But what better way to start and end a pandemic than with new Tennis. The husband-and-wife duo, Alaina Moore and Patrick Continue Reading