35 years is nothing for timeless music

The 16th annual Surf Guitar 101 Festival, held this year at the Golden Sails Hotel in Long Beach, California, featured 27 surf bands from around the planet, running the gamut from original 60’s surf from the likes of the Surfaris” and the *Atlantics” to long-time practitioners of next-wave surf, like the *Insect Surfers, Boss Martians, and the Ghastly Ones, to contemporary surf bands with a global twist, like the *Whys (Japan), Surfer Joe (Italy), Dirty Fuse (Greece), and the Scimitars.

The San Francisco-based metal quartet recently released their 11th studio album 72 Seasons and hit the road to promote the new material.

Days 3 & 4 of Lollapalooza 2024.

Days 1 & 2 of Lollapalooza 2024.

Murdoch commented on all the wonderful bands later on while headlining and his sincerity as always came through. “If you can’t run into a member of Belle and Sebastian at Bowlie, what’s the point?!”

Belle and Sebastian have been a band for over 25 years and they have yet to disappoint with any of their albums or shows. Like a fine wine, they just keep getting better and one can’t help feeling more nostalgic the longer you’ve lived with their music as a daily comfort.

The Big Takeover’s pre-coverage of Lollapalooza 2024 in Chicago, IL.

The Prisoners May 24, 2024, gig at the famed Roundhouse in London put a capstone on their legendary (at least to this scribe) career. Playing before their biggest audience ever, the band treated the crowd gathered from all over the world to a set of vintage organ-fueled garage, psyche, and soul, while playing gems covering their whole career, from 1982 debut, A Taste of Pink to their stellar 2024 comeback album, Morning Sun.

Wilco hosts their eighth curated festival nestled in the Berkshire Mountains with a wide ranging display of sounds.

Boston Calling enjoys superb weather on a bill stacked with pop performers and some C&W and others mixed in.

Though it was the last night of their tour, Allah-Las still played an engaging albeit somewhat short set that left the crowd yearning for more.

Mitski performed the second in a series of four sold-out concerts at Chicago’s storied Auditorium Theatre. The run of shows launched a new leg of touring in support of the celebrated songwriter’s seventh album, 2023’s The Land is Inhospitable and So are We.

These songs became heartfelt anthems for a packed crowd believing in the power of music and grateful for the experience.

Olsen quickly began thrilling the audience with her ravishing songs but also making fans laugh with her jokes about taco bars, bad knees, teleprompters, green bandanas and Argo Tea. Even though she now lives in North Carolina, she can always come back to visit and be Chicago’s darling!