[info_box]Ah, summers back home. The days are longer, and often filled with boredom and suffocation at internships, jobs, or worst of all– in our old rooms at our parent’s house staving off requests to walk the dog and actually do something with our life. All of the joy of summer days spent at camps are behind us. You may be [...]

It’s hard to go wrong with a concert whose backdrop is New York City’s Central Park in the summer. A short stroll from 5th Avenue at the eastern edge of the park, the Summerstage  has been a staple of New York summers since it opened in 1986. On Monday night, the venue was sold out for New York up and [...]

Read up on Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. on Metrojolt if you haven’t already! – New York City is a big city with a huge selection of venues which afford visitors and residents the opportunity to catch everything from a stadium show to a 10-person bar gig. So going out to a concert requires some serious deliberation, and possible feelings of [...]

  The excitement in the Great American Music Hall on Saturday night was palpable: young and old voices mingled and floated up into the rafters of the high and decoratively molded ceiling of the historic building. People were clamoring for the start of “It Gets Indie”– a benefit concert in its second year which supports the growth of the local [...]

Grunge, rock, and experimental all make their way into this track by Rachel Angel, a 20 year old music major at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Angel creates a rhythm using a rumbling guitar straight out of the Seattle grunge scene. She lays down edgy vocals that remind me of the ruggedness of Karen Orzolek of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs– [...]