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GOO GOO DOLLS | TRAIN With Special Guest Allen Stone Xfinity Center Mansfield, Massachusetts August 17, 2019 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc A very excited crowd gathered to take in the Goo Goo Dolls and Train on their last night of their summer amphitheater tour together. A beautiful summer night for an outdoor concert. Two great bands all in one place that night. The Goo Goo Dolls had broken through the top of the popular music scene by 1995 with the A Boy Named Goo album, pushing them further into the spotlight.  Albeit the band formed in 1986 and had already had four studioRead More →

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JUNKYARD The Vault Music Hall & Pub at Greasy Luck New Bedford, Massachusetts August 4, 2019 Photos & Review by Frank Piercy Playing at Greasy this evening is another band from the 80s LA Scene, JUNKYARD. Heavily overshadowed by Guns N Roses (but at point in the 80s, who wasn’t?) Junkyard is definitely one of the more under rated bands to come out of LA during that era, with a unique sound that is the illegitimate child of AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd who ended up rebelling against their parents and started their own garage punk band. As the crowd slowly filtered into The Vault atRead More →

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GODSMACK Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville, Connecticut July 26, 2019 Photos & Review by Tom Bogus GODSMACK came to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut on July 26th 2019. New Years Day got the night started with a high energy performance. Godsmack’s stage set up was much more scaled down from the last time I saw them in Hartford. Drummer Shanon Larkin was positioned in the middle of the stage on a very low drum riser between the bass and guitar amplifiers. Godsmack hit the stage at 9:15pm opening up with “When Legends Rise”. And the whole band was full of energy and ready forRead More →

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BREAKING BENJAMIN THREE DAYS GRACE Xfinity Theatre Hartford, Connecticut August 2, 2019 Photos & Review by Tom Bogus Breaking Benjamin brought their tour to the Xfinity theater in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2nd 2019 in support of their recent album release “Ember.” I missed the opening band Dorothy due to access issues. Three Days Grace started their energy filled 50 minute set at 8:40PM. They opened up with “The Mountain” from their newest studio release. They followed that up with “Home”, “The Good Life” and “Pain”. They continued with more songs from their first and second studio releases before closing with “Riot.” THREE DAYS GRACERead More →

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VOYAGE Casino Ballroom Hampton Beach, New Hampshire August 2, 2019 Photos & Review by Michael LaFleche The historic Hampton Beach Casino was packed full of people looking for the feel-good hard driving rock and smooth ballads of Journey. They came to the right place with the band Voyage taking responsibility for doling out hit after hit to the swooning sold out house. The resemblance of this band to Journey is unmistakable, with lead singer Hugo Valenti being a dead ringer for Steve Perry both in appearance, demeanor and most importantly, the incredible vocal pipes. The entire band is made of of great musicians with theirRead More →

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MESSER Interview & Show Photos Blue Ocean Music Hall Salisbury, Massachusetts July 24, 2019 Photos & Interview by Michael LaFleche After enjoying my interview with the guys from Weapons of Anew, I had the privilege of hanging out with Dereak and Maddox Messer from the exciting band Messer. They had just performed an acoustic set as a VIP experience for some fans so I started off asking them about this… D&M (Dereak and Maddox): We just got off of a VIP visit with fans, in our home (The RV), with old fans and new VIP acoustic in the trailer. One fan in search of newRead More →

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SiriusXM’s Coffee House Presents Matt Hartke and Matt Costa The City Winery Haymarket Lounge Boston, Massachusetts July 14, 2019 Photos & Review by Michael LaFleche It was a hot Sunday night in Boston and what better way to cap off the weekend with some musicians of real, soulful and unabashedly good music. That’s what the City Lounge provided with cheerful and heartfelt music of Matt Harke and the upbeat folk rock stories of Matt Costa and his excellent band. Matt Harke was first up, alone with his guitar on stage; but once he started playing his soulful tunes we were all together with him hangingRead More →

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Tailwinds Music Festival Featuring Chris Robinson Brotherhood With Black Stone Cherry, Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime, Kings X, Sass Jordan And Local Favorites Big Guns Featuring Rachel Lorin, The Playback and The Jason Gisser Band Wappinger Falls NY June 29, 2019 Photos & Review by Frank Piercy This was shaping up to be a great weekend. I got home from seeing Ace Frehley in New Jersey with enough time to get some sleep before having to drive to Wappinger Falls to see what promised to be a very interesting and eclectic line up being brought to us by the fine folks over at CMMC Festivals. CMMCRead More →

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COLLECTIVE SOUL WITH GIN BLOSSOMS NOW IS THE TIME TOUR 2019 Casino Ballroom Hampton Beach, New Hampshire June 8, 2019 Photos & Review by Dan Wenc The last time Northeast Rock Review covered Collective Soul at Mohegan Sun Arena in 2018 Ed Roland said they would be back in 2019 with a new album and headlining tour, he was right. Collective Soul’s latest album Blood is set to be released on June 21st. It was a beautiful spring night along the beach in New Hampshire at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. A great night to take in two bands that bridged over the grunge eraRead More →

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DORO / METAL CHURCH May 9th 2019 The Chance Theater Poughkeepsie, New York Photos & Review by Frank Piercy I realize that I am a bit behind in writing this review and getting these pictures done. Unfortunately (well not really unfortunately), I had my ass kicked earlier in the week by a last minute trip down to Columbia Maryland to cover the 80s metal fest M3 along with 23 bands, 3 days… plus pre parties… and after parties. I barely had time to recuperate before making the drive after work to the Chance Theater in Poughkeepsie. There was no way I was going to missRead More →