Live Reviews

Teen Mortgage, Alkaline Trio and Rise Against hit The Fillmore Philadelphia for a night of punk rock, politics, nostalgia and proof that showing up early still matters.

Victor Jones brought Rat Pack swagger, beautiful chaos, and a fucking surgical band to MilkBoy Philadelphia. Catch him in a room this size while you still can.

Legends, horns, blood, sweat, and a crowd that refused to stand still. Supernova Ska Festival 2026 brought three days of ska history and beautiful chaos to Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia.

Decades after discovering Fenix TX on a cheap punk sampler, K.M. North finally got to see the band that helped shape his musical life, and found out those songs still have plenty of teeth. That captures the personal story + nostalgia + live-review angle without giving away the emotional payoff at the end.

Shakey Graves brought a perfect Vermont summer night to life at Shelburne Museum, joined by Dope Lemon and Texino for an unforgettable evening of live music, beautiful chaos and a crowd completely lost in the moment.

Twenty-eight years after first photographing Modest Mouse in Toronto, I found myself in front of them again in Philadelphia. Then, minutes before they took the stage, my camera died.

Riot + Reverie reviews Third Thursday at Green Door Studios in Burlington, Vt., a DIY hip hop night inside an art gallery featuring six MCs, live DJs, and a graffiti mural going up next door.

There are very few musicians who can walk onto a stage armed with nothing more than a Martin guitar, a harmonica, and a voice that sounds like it's survived every mile it's ever traveled, yet somehow make an entire room forget there's no band behind them. Chuck Ragan is one of them.

The Rumours / The Goilz | Cambridge, Mass. | June 16 By Riot + Reverie "Girls in bikinis" means something different to everyone. For me, it’s not a beach or a billboard fantasy. It’s The Rumours detonating onstage like a bar fight set to a backbeat, a room full of strangers blinking through the smoke like they just woke up inside a jet engine. That’s The Rumours. They come out of Iowa, which feels like a cosmic joke until you see them play and realize geography has nothing to

Nobody left when it rained. The Bouncing Souls threw a punk festival at Asbury Park's Stone Pony Summer Stage featuring Less Than Jake, Bane, The Lawrence Arms, and School Drugs — and nobody went home early.

Hot off the new single "Apologies," Torturetwinn came to Cambridge to open for Kelsey Karter and the Heroines at the Upstairs at The Middle East, and they played like they had something to prove to every person in that room.

Thursday performed No Devolución, A City By the Light Divided, and Full Collapse in full at Stone Church on June 6, 2026. Read KM North's live review and concert photography from an unforgettable night in New Hampshire.

Acid Bath returned to Boston on May 30, 2026 at Roadrunner in Brighton, and thirty years of waiting evaporated the moment Dax Riggs walked out. Preceded by a brutal undercard of Final Gasp, Primitive Man, Pig Destroyer, and Napalm Death, this was a night that reminded every person in that sold-out room why they got into heavy music in the first place. Live review by KM North.

After last year’s rain-soaked weekend, Sing Us Home Festival returned to Manayunk with packed crowds, unforgettable performances, and the kind of music community that feels increasingly rare at larger festivals. From The Flatliners and Augustines to The Menzingers and an intimate Brian Fallon aftershow, the weekend delivered some of the year’s most memorable live music moments.