I’ve seen concerts with skilled musicianship, but for the total package – spectacle, performance and passion – Iron Maiden can’t be beat.

I had misgivings based on my last lackluster experience with Kiss, but in the end, I was glad that I went.

I can, without a doubt, say Gloryhammer’s recent stop in Dallas was one of the favorite concert experiences of my life.

The first-ever vinyl reissue of James Taylor’s ‘One Man Band’ live album prompts a re-evaluation.

Paul McCartney still knows how to enrapture an audience – definitely not an easy feat, although he makes it appear so.

Two hours, spent with Pat Metheny during a solo show in New Hampshire, and I was exhausted.

Sitting on the fence about attending an upcoming show by Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets? Mike Tiano is here to push you off.

“A good audience can really lift a player to great heights,” Ginger Baker says, “almost like they are playing the musician.”

When Ringo Starr sits behind the drums and shakes his head to the beat, time temporarily turns back to 1964.

If you pull your kid out of school and drive five hours to see Alestorm and Gloryhammer at a club, you may have a metal problem. It was more than worth it.