Almost Here’s 20th anniversary tour shone as a living, breathing love letter to the 2000s. Article & Photos by Vaneza Gutiérrez Wyckoff There are shows that feel like concerts, and then there are shows that feel like stepping through a wormhole in time. The Academy Is…’s Almost Here 20th Anniversary tour landed firmly in the latter, pulling the crowd headfirst into the glittering, angst-laced heartbeat of the mid-2000s and refusing to let go. The Academy Is… performing at Em

Article and Photos Contributed by Ernesto Raul Aguilar The Afterglow Tour with Bob Moses, joined by Cannons and opening act Oxis, arrived at The Salt Shed in Chicago on April 22 and delivered a night defined by atmosphere, pacing, and cohesion. The show unfolded with intention, each set flowing seamlessly into the next and shaping a larger emotional arc. It was a lineup that fully embraced mood and immersion, drawing the crowd in from the very beginning. Bob Moses performing

Article & Photos contributed by Rebecca McDevitt If you have never seen The Maine live, Friday night at Franklin Music Hall would have been the perfect introduction. The five-piece rock band out of Tempe, Arizona have been at this since 2007, eighteen years and ten studio albums deep, and they perform like a band that genuinely cannot believe they still get to do this. Their latest record, Joy Next Door, dropped just last week and they brought it straight to the road with the

An unrelenting set of hits by Rise Against—a fleeting moment of stillness, and a crowd that carried every word.

An emotional final tour stop filled with beautifully belted notes, shocking confessions, and connection across all ages Article & Photos by Vaneza Gutiérrez Wyckoff On a cool March evening in Seattle, The Moore Theatre transformed into something more than a venue — it became a confessional. The kind where hundreds of voices don’t just listen, but answer back in laughter and recognition. The night opened with two rising artists who each set the emotional tone in their own dist

From Warped Tour memories to a crowd-immersed finale, the band bridges past and present in Seattle. Article & Photos by Vaneza Gutiérrez Wyckoff On that typical drizzly Tuesday night in Seattle, El Corazon was packed with a crowd nearly going out the door. Emo fans spanning generations gathered, filling every corner of the darkly lit venue, shouting lyrics, hands held high in the air, singing their hearts out to songs rushing back as if it were still 2006, the album spinning

Article and Photos Contributed by Rachel Catherine The Kicking My Feet Tour is a celebration of Ruel’s sophomore album, Kicking My Feet, an album that describes through music that feeling of falling in love, when you’re all giddy, giggling and kicking your feet as you start falling hard for someone. A feeling that I know all too well, about a time or two hundred. But it was one fabulous way to end February, a month of love–very fitting for the album and the tour. It was a nig

A candid night of music, memory, and choosing how to live the one life we get on this spinning rock. Article & Photos by Vaneza Gutiérrez Wyckoff I walked into the Neptune Theatre chasing something familiar — the kind of catharsis only the lyrics of your youth, long buried in the recesses of your mind, can unlock. Little did I know that I would walk out with something far more personal. What unfolded onstage wasn’t just a two-hour rock performance, rather a revealing conversa

A night of intimacy and reflection that warmed a winter crowd. Article and Photos contributed by Vaneza Gutiérrez Wyckoff January 19th at Showbox SoDo had the crowd of concert-goers feeling like their own cozy little world tucked inside the grungy brick venue walls — even as the chilly winter air outside made it clear just how deep into January the PNW was. By showtime, the room was already humming, bodies packed shoulder to shoulder, phones raised and waiting, the anticipati