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Michael Lello

New York

Founder and Editor at Highway 81 Revisited

Digital Production Editor at Financial Times

Editor and music journalist @financialtimes /@Highway81Rvstd

Articles

  • 1 week ago | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

    Daisy the Great, the Brooklyn vocal duo comprising Kelley Dugan and Mina Walker who emerged from NYU with 2017’s “The Record Player Song” and its subsequent AJR remix, is, as expected, influenced by musical twosomes. But when the two members are really clicking, one and one make one, to borrow a lyric from The Who. “I think one thing we strive to do is be a duo that is like as iconic as a single person, like the band is like its own person,” says Walker.

  • 1 month ago | highway81revisited.com | Michael Lello

    Photos and words by Bobby Nicholas IIISinger-songwriter mxmtoon delighted Brooklyn Bowl on Thursday with her first show since she moved out of New York last year. Supporting the November release of her latest album, “Liminal Spaces,” she also performed songs from pervious releases and peppered the evening with personal stories, connecting with a crowd that included many fans that had been to her shows before.

  • 1 month ago | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

    As members of the Trey Anastasio Band and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Russ Lawton, Ray Paczkowski and Scott Metzger are used to the creature comforts of the road, like tour buses and crew members to set up their gear. But with LaMP, their instrumental trio? “We have no crew people,” says Metzger, the band’s guitarist. “It’s funny. They have a van up in Vermont, but we have so much gear and merch that there’s no room for me. So I drive myself around either in my car or in a rental.

  • Feb 12, 2025 | highway81revisited.com | Kat Von D |Trey Anastasio |Michael Lello

    Having fronted the Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES for nearly 15 years, Lauren Mayberry has performed for millions of fans from Glastonbury to Coachella, at stadium shows supporting Coldplay and headlining big rooms on their own. A show this Thursday at Webster Hall (1,500 capacity) is part of a project that is markedly smaller in scale but not in ambition. In December, Mayberry released her first solo album, “Vicious Creature,” and is touring behind it.

  • Dec 31, 2024 | highway81revisited.com | Michael Lello

    1. Soulshine, Madison Square Garden, New York, Nov. 242. Iron Maiden, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Nov. 23. Kacey Musgraves, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Nov. 164. Guster, Brooklyn Paramount, March 295. Glenn Hansard, City Winery, New York, March 186. Phish, MVP Arena, Albany, NY, Oct. 25-277. Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, UPAC, Kingston, NY, June 298. Ryan Adams, Carnegie Hall, New York, Nov. 279. The National, The War on Drugs and Lucius, Mann Center, Philadelphia, Sept. 1710.

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