Live Reviews

“La heterosexualidad puede ser curada” (“Heterosexuality can be cured”) read an orange-and-yellow billboard in Zona Rosa, the historically gay neighborhood of Mexico City, to promote Omar Apollo‘s May 31st visit to Auditorio BlackBerry. It was a simple, eye-catching marketing strategy to promote a cultural homecoming for the 24-year-old son of …

Teenagers aren’t typically known for being on time, but the crowd waiting to enter Lollapalooza on Thursday morning proved that generalization wrong. “By 11:30 a.m., it was already poppin’, and usually it’s dead then,” a 25-year-old woman told her friends while waiting for Jimmy Eat World to take the stage. …

Harry Connick Jr. has already heard enough people ask him, “Cole Porter, who’s that?” He even says a younger person mistook Porter for Nat King Cole (No, Porter did not write “The Christmas Song”). Fortunately, this won’t stop younger audiences from enjoying Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter …

Madonna has never shied away from taking chances. Thirty years after she set fire to the Eighties with the disco basilica Like a Prayer, she’s as gloriously weird as ever. Hence her excellent new Madame X tour, a testament to the genius in her madness. Instead of a full-blown tour, …

For Lady Gaga, a crowd of 1,500 people may seem miniscule. She explained just as much during an emotional part of her set on Monday night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, saying she hadn’t played a venue this small for over 10 years. “I was playing for 30 people, …

Cannibal Corpse frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher had already shot down the possibility of an encore, playfully roasting the crowd in the process. But still, you knew what was coming. As a rule, the band — one of the biggest and most beloved in death metal — will not leave a …

New York’s annual Winter Jazzfest marathon can be a mad scramble. For two nights in freezing January, dozens of groups in every imaginable style take over various downtown venues. Sets overlap, venues span nearly the whole width of downtown Manhattan from Alphabet City to Soho, crowds can swell to capacity, …

There are a lot of things that Billy Joel couldn’t possibly have imagined when he first played Madison Square Garden on December 14th, 1978. He couldn’t have imagined that 40 years later he’d sit on the same stage with his three-year-old daughter in his lap while the venue hoisted a …

“Thank you for letting me be the first black woman to headline Coachella,” said Beyoncé on Saturday night. “Ain’t that ’bout a bitch?” An unprecedented move in the luxe festival’s 19-year history, one-third of this year’s lineup is comprised of female artists – and at the helm of this progress …

On Sunday night at the Made in America festival in Philadelphia, Jay-Z was busy directing crowd traffic. There were two competing mosh pits near the stage, and the rapper urged a few revelers to step aside so that the rings could unite. “I promise you – you’ll have the time …