Category Archives: Concert Review

The Night Of The Sopranos: Cult Of Venus + Night Tapes @ Grey Eagle, Asheville 10-25-25 [pt. 1]

Posted on November 11, 2025 by postpunkmonk

It was some time during the middle of October that I was on the receiving end of two different offline threads from friends where the band Night Tapes had been mentioned. As in “my album of the year” and “next … Continue reading →

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It Was The Ultimate New Wave Tour: Lene Lovich, The B-52’s & DEVO @ PNC Music Pavilion, October 24, 2025 (Part 3)

Posted on November 5, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] I had fully given up hope that I’d ever see DEVO in concert! I’d come close. In 2018 I got to see Mark Mothersbaugh have a panel discussion with an old Kent State classmate who was … Continue reading →

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It Was The Ultimate New Wave Tour: Lene Lovich, The B-52’s & DEVO @ PNC Music Pavilion, October 24, 2025 (Part 2)

Posted on November 3, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] I heard from my former co-worker while we had been talking that tonight’s show had DEVO closing and he was right as by 7:45 p.m. the video screen began to light up. An animated skull with … Continue reading →

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It Was The Ultimate New Wave Tour: Lene Lovich, The B-52’s & DEVO @ PNC Music Pavilion, October 24, 2025 (Part 1)

Posted on November 2, 2025 by postpunkmonk

This concert had been very long-awaited with three acts I loved on a single bill. I’d only seen The B-52’s prior in 1989-1990. I had muffed my one chance to have seen both Lene Lovich and DEVO on the occasion … Continue reading →

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Sextile and Automatic Touch Down At Grey Eagle Asheville [9-29-25] And Rock The House

Posted on September 30, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Last night was a little different for me. Last Thursday, I received the email from The Grey Eagle, my main live local venue. As usual, I scanned the wealth of Americana/Jam Band listings to stop on photos of artists who … Continue reading →

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The Monk Was In A Metal Mood: Or, How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Judas Priest – Live @PNC Music Pavilion – Sept. 20th, 2025

Posted on September 22, 2025 by postpunkmonk

MONASTIC ROCK ROOTS I never have been too much of a Metal fan in my time. But perhaps a weird outlier in my musical development was the fact that the first “favorite band” I ever had were the hard + … Continue reading →

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Sparks Really Show How To Rock It As A “70s-80s Band” At Atlanta’s Tabernacle: Sept. 5, 2025 [part 2]

Posted on September 19, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] At the set’s midpoint came one of my all time Sparks Favorites: the ironic flipside to Pulp’s “Common People,” quite probably. That hilarious mockery of privileged class slumming, “Suburban Homeboy.” More amazingly, as Russell exited the … Continue reading →

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