Author: Jeff Kearney

DENVER – Commemorating 25 years as a solo artist, Gordon Sumner, aka Sting, has hit the road to celebrate this Silver Anniversary milestone with the 2011/2012 “Back to Bass” Tour.   Stopping through Denver on Sunday (11/20/11) to play for a capacity crowd at the Wells Fargo Center, Sting, and probably the smallest band he’s played…

Candlebox at the Black Sheep After a nearly decade long creative and legal hiatus, the songwriting duo of Kevin Martin and Peter Klett, otherwise known as Candlebox, re-emerged in 2008 with their 4th studio album, “Into the Sun.”  That was quickly followed up by the live CD/DVD release, “Alive in Seattle,”that same fall.  Now into…

DENVER – Sometimes in life there are moments that seem to just make no sense at all. That is, until you step back to take a look at the big picture, and Monday night’s Heart and Def Leppard concert at the Comfort Dental Center (Fiddlers Green) was most definitely one of those times.   As I…

Luckily however, when a group of gifted musical maestros capitalizes on that fact, well something magical can happen, and Monday July 18th must have been full of enchantment, for I ended up watching Red Rocks Amphitheater turn into a beautiful stone Soundgarden.   That’s right, 15 years after what was considered to be their final live…

DENVER – A majority of the time when picking concerts to review, I try and stay within my own musical preferences, primarily so I have a little bit of a background knowledge about the band and their songs, which helps out immensely in writing these concert opinions of mine.  Occasionally though, I like to step…

Having spent the last two decades being involved in the music industry in one way or another, including everything from being a roadie for a metal band right after turning eighteen to having my photographic services used by major record labels, I felt as though my background gave me a solid foundation to be a…

Having spent the last two decades being involved in the music industry in one way or another, including everything from being a roadie for a metal band right after turning eighteen to having my photographic services used by major record labels, I felt as though my background gave me a solid foundation to be a…

Having spent the last two decades being involved in the music industry in one way or another, including everything from being a roadie for a metal band right after turning eighteen to having my photographic services used by major record labels, I felt as though my background gave me a solid foundation to be a…

Flogging Molly at City Aud   Walking into May 4th’s Flogging Molly and Drowning Men concert at the Colorado Springs City Auditorium a feeling that rarely accompanies me, especially going into a show, began to creep up from within, and that was the feeling of apprehension.  For it was almost exactly a year ago to…

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