January 2020

The Saturn Cinema, Philly psych outfit Them Jones' fourth effort, takes the band's classic rock sound to a new corner of the genre. Leaving behind much of the bluesier rock and shoegaze-y drones that informed their last three albums, The Saturn Cinema trades in guitar rhythms for pianos, electric solos for Mellotron riffs, and themes of death and transience for personal reflection and catharsis.

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World-famous rock group, The Spin Doctors, will be playing the Wellmont Theater in Montclair, N.J., on Friday, Jan. 24. They’ll be joined by The Uprooted Band featuring Michael Glabicki of Rusted Root, along with James Maddock.

A new, cavernous San Francisco concert venue was put to use by Dead & Company on Dec. 30, and while it is the biggest indoor venue in Grateful Dead-hometown history, the party was no less enthusiastic. On New Year’s Eve, balloons would drop and a vintage plane would fly through the arena at midnight, but here on the 30th, the penultimate night of the year, Dead & Company delivered a big, powerful show worthy of review.