A.V. Club: Best of the Decade
  • The Black Crowes

The Riverside Theater

116 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee WI 53203
414-286-3663
$32.50
  • Sat Nov 7 8 pm,
    The Black Crowes and Truth & Salvage Co. at The Riverside Theater

    It’s a wake-up call to your own mortality that classic-rock revivalists The Black Crowes are now old enough to be simply “classic rock.” As befitting both that road-wizened maturity and its unwavering loyalty to the ’70s, the group’s new Before The Frost…—and digital-only companion …Until The Freeze—is one of those legendary “double live” albums, recorded last year in front of a small gathering of diehards in Levon Helm’s famed Woodstock barn. The setting obviously inspired the band, as its loose, country-and-blues-fed rock hasn’t sounded this confident in years (certainly not on last year’sWarpaint), making nods to everyone from disco-era Rolling Stones (“I Ain’t Hiding”) to The Allman Brothers—two bands it’s now joined in the rock pantheon. Enter to win a pair of tickets by emailing rsvpmilwaukee@theonion.com with “Black Crowes” in the subject line.

    The Riverside Theater 116 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, WI

It’s a wake-up call to your own mortality that classic-rock revivalists The Black Crowes are now old enough to be simply “classic rock.” As befitting both that road-wizened maturity and its unwavering loyalty to the ’70s, the group’s new Before The Frost…—and digital-only companion …Until The Freeze—is one of those legendary “double live” albums, recorded last year in front of a small gathering of diehards in Levon Helm’s famed Woodstock barn. The setting obviously inspired the band, as its loose, country-and-blues-fed rock hasn’t sounded this confident in years (certainly not on last year’sWarpaint), making nods to everyone from disco-era Rolling Stones (“I Ain’t Hiding”) to The Allman Brothers—two bands it’s now joined in the rock pantheon. Enter to win a pair of tickets by emailing rsvpmilwaukee@theonion.com with “Black Crowes” in the subject line.

Updated 10/27/2009

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