#Irving Plaza

LIVE REVIEWChelsea Wolfe @ Irving Plaza

If in the past Chelsea Wolfe has been called a “siren” and a “goddess,” atop the stage at Irving Plaza on Tuesday she was a towering banshee. Swathed in lengths of white cotton – with matching, armpit-high gauntlets, might I add – Wolfe commanded the sold-out crowd with pointed intensity. Wolfe's...

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWTaking Back Sunday at Irving Plaza

Taking Back Sunday rocked our emo hearts and made us relive the early 2000s at Irving Plaza. Live review by AudioFemme.

Nicole Ortiz

LIVE REVIEWTemples @ Irving Plaza

If a monster spit out the color wheel across the sparkling night sky, you would see what it was to experience Temples live. Before they travel back to tour in Europe for the winter, the band graced Irving Plaza Monday with an excessively stellar performance. Hailing from Kettering, England, the...

Jamila Aboushaca

LIVE REVIEWAsaf Avidan at Irving Plaza

The first time I heard Asaf Avidan's recordings I was blown away but also unsure of what to think. An arm's length from the core of what I normally listen to, Avidan's music exists in a bluesy folk realm that can sometimes feel derivative of those that came before. But I appreciated the boundaries...

Lindsey Rhoades

LIVE REVIEWBuilt to Spill 11/07

As a music reviewer, when you get the chance to attend a concert for well known rockers at a legendary rock venue, you don't exactly turn down the opportunity. And I'm so glad I said yes to seeing Built to Spill play Irving Plaza last Thursday. While the band isn't one that I follow particularly...

Kelly Tunney

SHOW REVIEWThe Jesus And Mary Chain

Not shockingly the Jesus And Mary Chain concert a few weeks back felt like a strange clash of generations; a milieu whose parameters constantly shift and become obscured by its inhabitants' conflicting schemata, or really, their respective ideologies around music. Attending the show were those who...

Marianne White