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Motörhead Marches Off to Mohegan Sun in CT

Kristen Pierson — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:53 +0000

Motörhead is making their return to the U.S. on the multi-bill festival, Gigantour, with Megadeth, Volbeat and Lacuna Coil. The second stop of the tour brought the band to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut on January 27, 2012.

The crowd was already amped up when Motörhead took the stage, but when the band started playing their first few chords, the energy of the arena went through the roof. The band played several of their classics including “Bomber,” “Ace of Spades,” and “Overkill” as well as newer songs like “I Know How to Die” from the 2010 release The Wörld Is Yours.

The performance lived up to, or exceeded everyone’s expectations, loud and raucous. And from my perspective, there’s nothing cooler than being in the photo pit while Lemmy is belting out tunes and wailing away on his Rickenbacker bass. Motörhead killed it.

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Setlist:

Bomber
Damage Case
I Know How to Die
Metropolis
Over the Top
The Chase Is Better Than the Catch
The One to Sing the Blues
Going to Brazil
Killed by Death
Ace of Spades
Overkill

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Halestorm Rocks The Mohegan Sun Wolf Den

Kristen Pierson — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00:11 +0000

Halestorm performed a free show at the Mohegan Sun Wolf Den on December 30, 2011.

As early as two hours prior to showtime, fans were lined up around the venue waiting to get inside. Halestorm played many fan favorites like “It’s Not You” and “I Get Off”, as well as three new songs, “Love Bites (So Do I),” “American Boys,” and “Freak Like Me,” which will be featured on their forthcoming album.

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Corey Taylor Spits Out Electrifying Performance in Rhode Island

Kristen Pierson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:20:42 +0000

Corey Taylor
The Met
Pawtucket, RI
December 7, 2011

“Chicken-Cow-Cow.” Not exactly the intro music one might expect for a rock star with the body of work Corey Taylor has amassed over the past 12+ years, but then, nothing about this appearance was entirely expected.

Taylor began the performance by setting some ground rules then reading excerpts from his book, Seven Deadly Sins. He prefaced the reading by saying “This is #50 on the Christian reading list … that means two fucking things by the way, one, they’re buying it in bulk to burn, or two, I am warping the shit out of the Christian youth of today.”

Taylor also took some time to tell stories and answer questions from the audience. Many of the stories, such as getting electrocuted by Daniel Tosh and the origins of “Chicken-Cow-Cow” contained a lot of humorous elements. Other stories offered insight into Taylor’s life as a musician, like the creepy doctor’s office in Indianapolis that provided the best remedy for sore vocal chords and his remarks about what life is like now that he’s been sober for a year and a half; “When I thought I was singing great wasted, turns out I was not.”

For the second half of the appearance Taylor whipped out his acoustic guitar and played songs to the delight of the crowd. The set included the Stone Sour favorites “Zzyzx Rd.” and “Through the Glass,” as well as songs from the Slipknot catalog like “Spit It Out,” “Psychosocial,” and “Snuff.”

Taylor also played a good number of cover tunes, including Elvis’ “Burning Love,” Alice In Chains’ “Down in a Hole,” U2′s “With Or Without You,” and the Ramones’ “Outsider.” Despite being a bit under the weather, Taylor sounded great. It was impressive to hear how he made the songs his own by playing them his way and not trying to over-emulate the bands.

The set closed with a rowdy rendition of “X-M@$,” the anti-holiday track Taylor released last year. It’s no wonder why he makes such a great front-man, because whether he’s singing, speaking, and playing guitar (or even cheap Casio keyboards), Corey Taylor is lively, animated, and engaging. He doesn’t have to work to connect to the crowd; he just does it instinctively.

Taylor’s closing remark from the Q&A session sums up this evening pretty well, “As long as your passionate about something, fucking do it. You don’t have to define your life by it, but at least try for it.”

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Hurt Concert Photos from Hartford

Kristen Pierson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:00:35 +0000

Hurt concert photos from their tour stop at the Up and On The Rocks in Hartford, CT on November 18, 2011.

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Hurt Concert Photos and Review from Cambridge, MA

Kristen Pierson — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:51:40 +0000

HURT
T.T. the Bears
Cambridge, MA
November 15, 2011

It’s been over two years seen I’ve seen Hurt perform live. Too long. By the time we arrived at T.T. the Bears in Cambridge a pretty good sized crowd was already assembled, a full hour-and-a-half before Hurt was due to begin their set. Visiting with the band briefly before the show I immediately sensed something was a bit different now. The guys seem more collected and relaxed than ever, but more importantly, very enthusiastic and optimistic about what the future holds for the band.

When we came out from backstage, the venue was packed and the crowd was giving opening act Prospect Hill a warm response. When Hurt took the stage, the crowd erupted in cheers and applause. Everything I sensed while talking to the band before the show presented itself onstage. Call it chemistry or simpatico, the guys played so well together, maybe better than ever.

The crowd was loud, but in a good way, singing along to every word of every song. Every word. What makes the crowd attendance and participation even more spectacular are the facts that before tonight Hurt hasn’t playing in the Boston area since 2008, and radio support has been sparse to non-existent. And still they came, and showed Hurt their appreciation in the best way they could.

You could see the impact of the crowd response in faces of the band members. You could hear the connection between the members in the music. One of the most powerful events of the night came during the performance of “Aftermath,” when Hurt practically hypnotized the boisterous crowd into such a silence that you could almost hear a pin drop (or at least the techno music blasting downstairs). The crowd was completely engaged and mesmerized.

I’ve been to dozens of Hurt shows over the past several years, and this show in Boston may be the best one yet. Before the show J. Loren said to me “If we play for two years together the way we’re playing, we’ll be sounding like a band that’s been playing together for thirty years, and of that I’m very proud.” I can’t wait to see and hear how this new vitality presents itself on their upcoming album, The Crux. I’m certain everyone at the show feels the same.

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Standing Higher, An Interview with James Durbin

Kristen Pierson — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:54:53 +0000

James Durbin’s debut album, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster, featuring the singles, “Stand Up,” and “Love Me Bad,” was released today (November 21, 2011) via Wind-Up Records. Mr. Durbin took some time to speak with us recently to discuss the new album and give us an update of things to come.

Type 3 Media: We had a chance to listen to your upcoming album, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster, and are impressed with how well you are able to change vocal style from song to song; did you find that challenging at all?

James Durbin: Not so much. Honestly, there are so many diverse different styles of music and different artists that I find myself singing in the car. It’s pretty easy to jump from a song like “Higher Than Heaven,” which is a very hard rock song, to a song like “Right Behind You,” which is more dramatic, and into a song like “May,” which is so emotional and still very big.

Type 3 Media: How did you like working with Mick Mars?

James Durbin: Mick Mars is unbelievable. It was really cool. He plays on the song called “Outcast,” which is written by my favorite band outside the United States, Hardcore Superstar. They’re from Sweden. The song is so much fun, and just having Mick in the studio and singing to him playing guitar — it just brought even more energy into it. It’s a very very energetic song, and it’s one of the most fun songs to play live. It’s just a song where I’m on my feet jumping up and down and dancin’ like a fool.

Type 3 Media: What was the most valuable thing you learned from the experience?

James Durbin: You’re never too old to rock. There are so many guys out there that have been doing it since they were my age, and they’re still doing it, and they’re onwards and upwards. The soul that they have is still the soul of a nineteen year-old. It’s always fun being around that — being there, being a part of it, and getting to experience that moment.

Type 3 Media: Did you have any challenges recording the album?

James Durbin: Well my voice — as with anytime in the studio where you’re singing the song over and over, I probably sang each song fifteen times throughout to get the best one. I warmed my voice up on each song to get the very very best one. On a couple of occasions, my voice did drop out, and we had to cut the day abruptly and come in the next day to finish it off. That’s probably the only challenge.

Type 3 Media: Is there one song on the album that you feel most connected to?

James Durbin: It’s probably a tie between “Higher Than Heaven” and “Right Behind You.” “Higher Than Heaven” is a song that’s about my life before I met my fiancée Heidi. I was going down, I wasn’t going anywhere, and as soon as I met her everything changed. My analogy for it is I have a pocket watch set to the time of my life, and my pocket watch was losing numbers, and the numbers were falling off just to the bottom. It’s almost as if there was no where else to go. Heidi is now my pocket watch and it’s as if nothing in my life before the moment that I met her mattered.

Type 3 Media: There’s been a lot of talk about you getting married; have you and Heidi set a date yet?

James Durbin: Yes we have, but it’s top secret.

Type 3 Media: Since the start of American Idol to present day, what is your fondest memory of this whole experience?

James Durbin: Hmmm. Wow. I don’t know, I don’t think about that a lot. Probably not as much as I should.

Type 3 Media: Any touring plans in the works?

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James Durbin: I’m doing a couple dates during the second week of December. First in Lawrence, Kansas on December 8th, and then in Memphis, Tennessee on December 10th. We’re currently mapping out the tour for early 2012.

Type 3 Media: How does it make you feel when people tell you that you’re an inspiration for their child or family member who has Tourette or Asperger’s syndrome?

James Durbin: It really humbled me. Whenever I hear someone tell me that, it actually inspires me. Just the thought of someone being inspired by me or taking something from me and be able to use it in their life, it’s pretty unbelievable. I’d like to tell those people that they’re not alone, because I’m just as inspired by them battling through their struggles.

Type 3 Media: You recently wrapped up the American Idol tour; what are three essential things you had to have with you while on the road?

James Durbin: One would be my phone to call Heidi and to call Hunter. Another would be my iPod, it has all the music I need to get through the tough days, and the hard days of really missing them. And it also has my Skype on there so I can Skype with them at the arenas every day. Third would be some good old fashioned wrestling DVDs.

Type 3 Media: You are a big fan of wrestling aren’t you?

James Durbin: Yeah, I was actually able to get the guys into watching wrestling. Days that I wouldn’t even think to put wrestling on because I wanted to sit back and relax, the guys would come to me, Casey [Abrams], Scotty [McCreery], Stefano [Langone], and Paul [McDonald], and be like “hey, got any good wrestling we can watch?” Mission accomplished.

Type 3 Media: Any final thoughts?

James Durbin: I just can’t wait to get out there and start playing. It’s crazy going from every week in front of the cameras playing for 30,000 people, and now I’m like begging for that again. I love being onstage. I love singing and performing, and doing what I love being a working musician, supporting myself and supporting my family from it. It’s all that I’ve wanted to do and I can’t wait to get back out there with a band.

The Crux of the Matter, Unplugged and Off the Cuff with HURT

Kristen Pierson — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:16:28 +0000

HURT is currently on their first-ever acoustic tour. We had a chance to catch-up with the band during their tour stop in Cambridge, MA to discuss their new upcoming album, touring, and the road to becoming a band of brothers.

Type 3 Media: What have been some of the highlights of this tour so far?

J. Loren: Personally for me, it was coming home to the D.C. region, which has always been kind of puzzling where there weren’t a lot of people that showed up even though it’s where we originated. And, doing the smallest tour that we’ve ever intentionally done, we had the highest number in D.C. So, that to me was encouraging.

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Victor Ribas: For me it’s definitely been — being without in ear monitors on this acoustic tour I’ve been able to hear fans sing along to the songs, which normally I can’t even hear. I didn’t know that usually everywhere we go ninety percent of the crowd knows the songs, every single word from beginning to end. To be able to feel the crowd in that fashion, in a way that I never had before, it’s just amazing, I love it.

Rek Mohr: Same as Victor really. It’s the response. We didn’t know what to expect from this tour. We just knew that we were going to go out and play the songs acoustically. But it’s been so intimate that it feels like the crowd is almost like a family sitting in our living room. We’re playing the songs and being able to tell stories and just hear the response. Some nights, like in Knoxville TN, they were so loud they were drowning us out. And that’s a pretty cool problem to have. It’s been amazing the response we’ve gotten.

Type 3 Media: A lot of fans wanted you to do a tour like this, is this a response to the request for acoustic performances?

J.: It’s both in response to the fans and also to bypass some of the, let’s just say, archaic legacy systems that keep bands from going to certain places and only have them touring in certain routes. Because if we’re going to play wherever we want, we’re literally going to play wherever we want. How long’s it been since we came here?

Type 3 Media: More than three years.

J.: Too long. We were trying to figure out a way, and trying to figure out a way. Well, we found out a way and we don’t care if it makes money. We get to come and play for you guys, so that’s basically what this is about. We’re playing with each other, and getting tighter with each other. It’s all in all just basically playing music together, and that’s what we want to do, so it’s a win, win, win, win, win.

Type 3 Media: Is it easier just packing gear for the acoustic tour or do you find that you’re still packing a lot of stuff?

Rek: Ironically it’s more.

Victor: We have more. The trailer that we bring for the acoustic tour is just as full as it was for the electric tour. We have just as much stuff, which surprises us every night. We crack jokes about it — “oh look at this acoustic tour” as we push out all of our cases.

Rek: It’s mostly the cases, because the stuff is a little more fragile, so we have to be a little more careful with the gear and not let it get banged up. Every road case we own is in the trailer.

J.: On top of that, because of the situations I really can’t talk too much about — we’re kind of bypassing those — so the money’s a lot lower and we’re hauling our own gear, and we don’t really mind. But, we brought a lot of gear [laughs]. I’m playing four instruments on stage, and we have back-ups for everything. There’s no way around it, you want to make sure you have a good show.

Type 3 Media: How does it feel being back on a label?

Rek: It’s nice to have the support. We’ve done Capitol, we’ve done our own imprint, and now we’ve done this independent. I’ve got to say Capitol wasn’t really supportive, and being on our own was really difficult because every decision and every bit of pressure is on you. It’s nice to have a label to help bear some of that burden.

Victor: And Carved Records has been amazing. From day one they’ve been awesome. It’s been a situation where, for the most part, we give them one of our ideas and they’re like “OK, what do you need to make it happen?” As opposed to a bigger label that might have their own ideas and want to take control of everything. They’re letting us take what we want to do, and do that.

J.: Here’s an example, to some extent, we believe in Carved and they believe in us. What’s happening is — last night they’re asking us what songs we’re playing every night — like, the President of the label wants to know. Whereas opposed to when we were on Capital, the guy who was in charge of Artists and repertoire didn’t know a God damned song we did. So that should show you the difference right there. We’re both hugely invested in each other and I think we’re going to have a good outcome. None of us are fortune-tellers but we’ll do our best together.

Type 3 Media: How do you feel about the new album, The Crux, that’s coming out next March?

J.: Fantastic

Victor: Really proud.

Type 3 Media: You’ve had a couple years to work on it.

Rek: Which usually can be a good thing or bad thing, but I think in our case it was good because a lot of the frustrations that we had, a lot of the anger comes out very vividly on this record. I would liken it to the Volumes but a whole lot angrier.

J.: The sad part is people don’t know how busy we’ve been throughout the past couple years. We’ve actually gone through, vetted out this album to make sure it’s just what we need to do. We did a side project there in between. There’s a lot of stuff that’s been going on, and the world’s going to hear about it post, which is the way it works. In the meantime, we actually took one thing, that I think was our smartest move. When there were irreconcilable differences between the band members, it all worked itself out. And then we took the time, instead of just rushing out there on the road, to just play and gel together and be a band. This is the first time in probably, oh I don’t know, six years that I’ve had a band of brothers that I can literally change on the fly and just point to somebody and they take over. And it’s vice versa with everybody. This is a real band. This isn’t one of those manufactured bands that you get on stage where you follow the steps and do the choreography.

Victor: I think the album’s going to show that.

Type 3 Media: Rek, when you came onboard there seemed to be some chemistry present.

Rek: There was, and I think now it’s more tangible. The thing about HURT is that we want people to latch on because the music is honest. That’s why I think people have always liked us, because it’s honest music. Now we have the ability to go wherever the moment takes us on stage, and that’s something we never really did before. It’s the most liberating thing as a musician and an artist to be able to follow your instincts. It really has been translating during these shows because the crowd has been taken on a journey almost every night.

J.: To be perfectly honest, just a couple years ago Rek and I couldn’t even talk to each other. We couldn’t stand to be in the same room, because all of this dysfunctional pressure is on you — you have to deliver this, you have to deliver this, now you have to do what I say, no you have to do what… — It’s not the way it needs to be. The problem wasn’t that Rek and I don’t like each other, the problem was that it was just a bad dynamic. We weren’t playing music honestly, and we were letting things get in the way. It became almost a job even though we both — just in our case, I’m talking about the two of us — we both independently loved what we did, just the getting together part of it was really difficult. We took the time to sort through that, get it done, any frustration actually put down on paper, then put down on the recording. It all out now, it’s all out in the air. Now, Rek is a good friend of mine.

Type 3 Media: After a couple members left the band did you have to re-record anything for the album?

J.: Yes. A lot. Michael and Rek took a huge, huge hit. I mean, obviously the whole band took a hit financially to make sure everybody was currently invested. But their workload went up tremendously.

Rek: Particularly Michael’s, because he engineered the whole record. So for him he had to basically go back and do everything over.

Michael Roberts: We had to redo everything.

J.: Not only that, he had trained himself to basically take over my old parts. And then with the departure of Paul [Spatola] with no notice, he relearned all the parts that he learned but with Paul’s while doing a semi-part of mine. I didn’t even have instruments available to be able to help him out. He was doing all that while doing very difficult vocal harmonies. I know they were difficult because they were my vocal harmonies that I made for myself, and he’s pulling it all off. The amount of work that he had to do was astonishing.

Type 3 Media: A lot of people are asking if “Incomplete” will be on the new album.

Victor: No, it won’t be on The Crux.

J.: That was demo’d the first time at a place I can’t say, because it was an after-hours recording-thing. We messed around with it a little bit, but basically the other iterations of the band weren’t really into it. Even though we tried it, you really can’t shove down shit with a shovel. Maybe we’ll come back and try that again at some other point. It depends, if the guys are feeling it and we’re gelling with it, yes, we can do that.

Type 3 Media: Is the album going to be all new material, or will it include songs you’ve had kicking around for a while.

J.: All new material.

Victor: Well, there is “Numbers” that was released as a single, but that was released before I came into the band, and has been redone for this album with me on drums and things have been revamped. But aside from that, everything is brand new.

J.: We just basically wanted “Numbers” on there. It fits into the context of the album.

Rek: The only reason it was released early for people to hear was to give them a preview of the direction we were going and to kind of let them know “hey, we’re still working on music, don’t get impatient.” We’re getting there.

J.: I thought it was really funny when people who heard “Numbers” and then said “Well you guys have sold-out.” That song mimics “The New Disease” from our first album, so I thought that was really cute. I was like “oh, we sold out?”… back to the very first thing we ever did ever?!?

Type 3 Media: How does it feel playing some of those old songs?

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J.: Since we’re playing them well, it feels great. In previous iterations where people were just too-self centered it felt horrible because I didn’t want to share that part of myself with people I didn’t trust. That’s over now, and we’ve whipped out songs from the self-title album on this tour.

Victor: I can definitely say that — normally I wouldn’t speak for the band but I know can in this — because we’ve all turned to each other at some point in time on this tour, either Rek’s turned and looked at me, or J.’s turned and looked at me, or Michael’s turned and looked at me and said “dude, I think I just had a moment.” Tears were about to come out of our eyes because the music is very powerful. We’re not doing very many new songs, so most of the songs are written before I even heard the band. To hear the songs in a new light, different from the record, to be able to experience them in that way and to experiment with them — the writer of the songs, J., let us experiment in that way. The songs have been just like powerful, very powerful.

Type 3 Media: It must feel good being able to connect with people and make an impact when you perform.

Victor: That’s exactly what we’re trying to do. For the most part, HURT music is not really complex music that you need to go to school for eight years to figure out and get your PhD in music. But, what we’re trying to do is take an emotion and take an idea, sometimes a very simplistic idea, and convey it in a way that might not be obvious from the get go, but that you can connect with it.

J.: We’re going to continue to explore it, because otherwise we would be a formulaic kind of band. To tell you the truth there’s probably been two shows that I didn’t fucking break down and ball in tears on this tour. That very rarely happened before. With the previous iterations of the band it was typically when it was just me playing that things would start to get to me. But now, we’re doing things right, and I’m feeling… that.

Rek: It’s the most unified and the most focused — and we’re a very hard working band anyway — so put those elements together and it’s only a matter of time. We’re kind of like a train, we’re picking up momentum and we’re going to get to a point where it doesn’t matter what gets in the way we’re just going to keep going.

J.: This is not forecasting, this is just simply saying this is our belief. We’ve already beaten the odds, one to a million, every single one of us easily, to even be where we are. Thank God we’re at that top ninety-five percentile of bands that get to do this for a living. This is not the time to take it easy and that’s not what we’re going to do.

Type 3 Media: Any plans in the works for touring in 2012?

Rek: Lots.

Victor: The whole year.

J.: Lots. No specifics because like we said, we’re in a partnership with Carved, they’re not telling us what to do and we’re not telling them what to do. We’re going to see what works and what’s the best idea at the time and kind of run and gun and see what happens. So no promises, but yes, we will definitely be touring. I’m not sure exactly where.

Victor: I’d like to tour 365 days a year…

J.: We’ve damn near done that before brother. [laughter]

Victor: But like J. said, it’s a partnership and we want to do what’s best for the band and best for the label. It’s a very symbiotic relationship with Carved. What we do affects them and what they do affects us, whether it’s positive or negative.

Type 3 Media: If each of you could pick one band you’d like to tour with, who would it be?

Rek: Porcupine Tree.

J.: Alison Krauss and Union Station.

Victor: I don’t think it’d be the best for the band because I’ve heard of comparisons in the past, but everybody in this band knows I’m a huge fan of Tool. I would love to tour with those guys. I’m going to do a dual — somebody huge and famous that have been around for decades like Rush or The Police or something like that. Because when you go on tour with a band you learn from them, even if they’re not that good, you learn mistakes, you learn positives, you learn all these things.

J.: If this was a local publication, which it’s not truly, if we were just talking to local people they’d understand what I’m saying. I’m so glad that we’re in this region because the things that we were compared to with Tool — I appreciate Tool, they’re a fantastic band — there’s literally a vocal styling called the Irish Tenor. It’s what I do, it’s what Maynard James Keenan does, and it’s what Josh Groban does. It’s a particular styling of vocals that you’re inclined to do. A woman came up to me last night and goes “please tell me you’re Irish” and I said “no, I’m half Scotch and half Italian.” She says “Well, what does that mean?” so I say “Well, it means I like wine and whiskey.” [laughter]

Michael: To tour? Jeff Buckley.

Victor: Jeff Buckley, nice.

Rek: That’s going to be tricky.

Type 3 Media: Well, that’s not possible.

Michael: I can choose anyone I want to, it’s a fantasy question.

Type 3 Media: Anyone alive?

Michael: How about… Tom Petty is my answer.

Type 3 Media: Any final thoughts?

Victor: We’re really excited about not just what’s happening now, or but what’s happening in the near future, but the entire future of this whole thing. I’ve been playing music since I was five years-old, and I’ve never been in a situation to which I actually feel like, “oh my gosh I can actually have a career with these other three guys for the rest of my life and be happy.” I’ve been in so many bands, as we all have, and I can’t tell you how many times it’s real easy to sat to hate each other because you’re around each other all the time. We rarely argue about anything, and if we do, we’re all very mindful to let each other say what we want to say, and the other person listens. It’s the most functional — as opposed to dysfunctional — it’s the most functional group of guys and musicians I’ve ever worked with.

J.: I can tell you this, if some one person unwaveringly believes something, it can be possible. If two people believe it, it is probable. If four people do it, it is very very likely. I believe that’s exactly where we are. I believe that that’s what’s going to happen. I think we’re doing exactly the right thing. This is not blowing smoke, I believe it’s just a matter of time. If we play for two years together the way we’re playing, we’ll be sounding like a band that’s been playing together for thirty years, and of that I’m very proud. I don’t think we’re the best in the world, but I think that we will not stop trying to try to be there. I think that’s a good mindset and a good work ethic.

Type 3 Media: Thank you so much.

HURT: Thank you.

Street Dogs Concert Photos from Providence

Kristen Pierson — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:47:20 +0000

Street Dogs concert photos from their tour stop at the Whiskey Republic in Providence, RI on September 16, 2011.

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Dropkick Murphys Photos from Providence

The Pretty Reckless Rock the Worcester Crowd

Kristen Pierson — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:00:12 +0000

The Pretty Reckless
The Palladium
Worcester, MA
October 28, 2011

The Pretty Reckless took the stage as the opening act for Evanescence tour. Their performance was phenomenal, and better than I expected.

The band, fronted by Taylor Momsen, proved to be a great opener that really got the energy of the crowd up. Momsen has great stage presence, and appeared very comfortable belting out the band’s tunes, as well as an ambitious cover of Audioslave’s “Like a Stone.”

I’m adding The Pretty Reckless as an artist to keep a close eye on, because they seem primed to do some really great things.

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Evanescence Give Fans What They Want in Worcester

Kristen Pierson — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:00:48 +0000

Evanescence
The Palladium
Worcester, MA
October 28, 2011

I arrived at the venue to see a huge line out the door. Some of the fans had camped out since midnight in the cold New England air just for the opportunity to get up-front. The show was sold-out and everyone looked excited to be there.

Evanescence opened the set with their latest single “What You Want.” They sounded great. Amy Lee moves around so much on stage it almost seems she gets winded at times, but somehow she never misses her cue or sounds out-of-breath. Lee is always amazing to watch live.

The crowd was going nuts while packed into the venue like sardines. A few people were overwhelmed by the heat or the crush and had to be carried out, but overall there was any extremely positive vibe in the venue.

It’s always a treat to attend an Evanescence show because the band (and the fans) never disappoint.

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Set List:

What You Want
Going Under
The Other Side
Weight of the World
The Change
Made of Stone
Lost in Paradise
My Heart Is Broken
Lithium
Sick
Oceans
Call Me When You’re Sober
Imaginary
Bring Me to Life

Encore:

Never Go Back
Your Star
My Immortal

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